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CONTENTS 

Chap. Page 
Frontispiece. Municipal Building 4 

1. General Information. Transportation Facilities, Subway, 
Elevated and Surface Lines, 'Bus Lines, Ferries, Tunnels, 
Bridges, Hotels, Ilestaurants, Amusements, Theatres - - ~^ 

2. Broadway. Skyscrapers. Trinity and Grace Churches, Union 
Sq., Madison Sq., Greeley Sq., Herald Sq., "Great White 
Way," Times Sq. - 24 

3. Fifth Avenue. Washington Sq. and Arch, New York Public 
Library, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Phiza, Residential Section 40 

4. Battery and Bowling Green. Custom House, Produce Ex- 
change, Battery Park, Governor's Island, Liberty Statue, 
Ellis Island, Aquarium ' - - 52 

5. Bowlingr Green to AVall Street. Stock Exchange, Sub-Treas- 
ury, Assay Office, Financial District, Fraunce's Tavern - 50 

6. Wall to Fulton Street. Clearing House. Chamber of Com- 
merce, Insurance and Jewelry Districts 65 

7. Fulton to Chambers Street. Post Office, Printing House Sq., 
City Hall Park, Hall of Records, Municipal Building, Leather 
District 70 

8. Chambers to Canal Street. Civic Center, Tombs and Crimi- 
nal Courts, Mulberry Bend, Chinatown, Hudson River Dav 
Line 75 

9. Canal to Houston Street. Ghetto, Bowery, Bradstreet's, Po- 
lice Headquarters 84 

10. Houston to 14th Street. Cooper Union, Greenwich Village - 89 

11. 14th to 23d Street. Washington Irving High School. Hebrew 
Charities, Tammany Hall, Steinwav Hall, Chelsea Piers, 
Sixth Ave. Shopping District 96 

12. 23d to 34th Street. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. Building, 
Appellate Court House, Madison Sq. Garden. "Little Church 
Around the Corner," Bellevue Hospital, Pennsylvania Station 105 

13. 34th to 42d Street. Murray Hill, Bryant Park. Hotel Navarre 118 

14. 42d to 59th Street. Grand Central Terminal. Board of Edu- 
cation, Clubs and Theatre Districts ------ 124 

15. 59th to 110th Street, East. Rockefeller Institute, Normal 
College, Fire Department 135 

16. Central Park. Menagerie, Obelisk, Museum of Art - - 141 
IT. 59th to 110th Street. West. Columbus Circle. Museum of 

Natural History, Academy of Design, Riverside Drive - 148 

18. 110th to 130th Street. Cathedral of St. .John the Divine, 
Columbia University, Grant's Tomb, Harlem - - - 155 

19. 130th Street to Kingsbridge. College of the City of New 
York, Fort George. Deaf and Dumb Institute - - - 161 

20. Bronx. Parks, New York University and Hall o.f Fame - 166 

21. BrookljTj. Navy Yard, Greenwood Cemetery, Prospect Park, 
Fort Hamilton, Coney Island 171 

22. Queens. Long Island City, Flushing, Jamaica, Rockaway - 178 

23. Richmond. Sailors' Snug Harbor, Billop House, South and 

Midland Beaches, Fort Wadsworth 180 

Hotels - - . -^ 182 

Theatres ' ' J^ 184 

Index . . . AL '^^■^ . . - . .185 



^ FEB 20 1914 

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Tke Greatest City m tke "World 

RAPIDLY advancing to first place in point of population, New 
York already has achieved the primacy in all other respects. 
The Chamber of Commerce estimates the banking power of the 
city at $4,770,180,483, or 22.66 per cent, of that of the entire United 
States. With eleven great railroad systems and 114 steamship 
lines focusing at the greatest harbor in the world, the Chamber of 
Commerce estimates that the water-borne traffic exceeds 150,000,- 
000 tons, filling the holds of 4,201 ships in foreign trade and 5,914 
in coastwise traffic. Unlike other great commercial cities, New 
York is also the greatest manufacturing city. Within its limits 
are 27,283 factories and shops engaged in 297 lines of manufac- 
ture, representing an investment of $3,529,946,487, a sum nearly 
half the total the money in circulation in the United States. For 
the accommodation of the largest transient population, averaging 
200,000, and the largest permanent hotel population, 100,000, New 
York maintains over 700 hotels, capable of entertaining 300,000 
people. Over half a billion is spent annually in the city's dining 
rooms. The annual food supply is estimated as costing $1,750.- 
000,000. 

The city's manifold attractions are scattered over all parts of 
its vast area, and the visitor whose time is limited cannot possibly 
see more than a small portion of them, but by following the 
carefully planned itineraries laid out in this book he will be able 
to see the most interesting sights with the least loss of time. 
Definite tours are arranged, each covering a section of the city. 
Each tour begins and ends at a subway or elevated railway sta- 
tion. Broadway, from the Battery to Central Park (59th St.) 'and 
Fifth Ave., from Washington Sq. to 110th St. are described 
separately. By taking these two trips first the visitor will obtain 
a general survey of the most interesting part of the city and 
locate landmarks for subsequent trips. 

Nearly all the data in this book have been obtained from offi- 
cial sources. The matter relating to public affairs, institutions and 
great corporations has been submitted to and revised by their 
officials, bringing such matter up to date and absolutely correct. 
To further insure accuracy, each tour was carefully gone over just 
before the book was put to press and the descriptions were veri- 
fied. Most of the illustrations were prepared especially for this 
work, in the same style as those which have given King's Views 
a world-wide reputation. The publishers will be grateful for 
suggestions that might increase the value of future editions. 

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MUNICIPAL BUILDING. 

Center St. and Park Row to Dnane St. 



General Information. 

NEW YORK CITY consists of five boroughs, Manhattan, 
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond, which were united 
in 1898. Most of the attractions are in the Borough of Manhat- 
tan, which was the original 'City of Xew York, and when speak- 
ing of New York City one usually means this borough. Each 
borough is also a county of the State. Manhattan was the origi- 
nal place name in the Indian tongue. The first recorded visitor 
was Verrazani, a Florentine navigator, who is supposed to have 
landed on Manhattan Island in 1524. The first undoubted dis- 
coverer of the harbor and river was Henry Hudson, an English 
mariner, in 1609. Although fur traders had lived here tempo- 
rarily, the first permanent settlement was in 1624. In 1626, Peter 
Minuit arrived as Director-General. His first official act was to 
purchase the island from the Indians with beads and other trin- 
kets, valued at $24. The first settlers were Dutch and called the 
place New Amsterdam. In 1664 the Duke of York took the 
colony for England and renamed it New York. 

The BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN consists of Manhattan 
Island and a few small islands in the bay and in the East River. 
It is about 13 miles long, with an average width of two miles, 
with an area of 18.80 sq. miles and population of 2,435,102. 
Hudson River, called locally North River, lies on the west, separ- 
ating it from New Jersey. The East River, on the east, separates 
it from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The Harlem 
River, on the north, separates it from the borough of the Bronx. 
On the south is New York Bay. The BOROUGH OF BRONX 
is across the Harlem River from Manhattan. Its area is 40.6 sq. 
miles and its population 641,986. The BOROUGH OF BROOK- 
LYN comprises Kings County, including the former city of 
Brooklyn. The area is 80.93 sq. miles and the population 1,700,848. 
North and east of Brooklyn is the BOROUGH OF QUEENS, 
consisting of the former Long Island City and a number of old 
villages. The area is 117.36 sq. miles and the population 326,089. 
The BOROUGH OF RICHMOND consists of Staten Island, with 
an area of 57.18 sq. miles and population of 91,870. It lies in the 
bay five miles south of Manhattan. The total population of the 
greater city is 5,583,871; includmg New Jersey and Westchester 
suburbs, from which people commute to New York, it is (esti- 
mated) 7,400,000. 

The arrangement of STREETS in Manhattan is generally rec- 
tangular. North of Houston St., which is one mile north of Citv 

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Hall, streets running east and west are numbered from 1st St. 
to 220th St., the last-numbered street in Manhattan, and to 262d 
St., the last-numbered street in the Bronx. All streets from 8th 
to 142d St. are called east or west, as they lie east or west of 
Fifth Ave. The street numbers begin at Fifth Ave. and run to 
the river. Avenues run north and south and are numbered from 
First to Thirteenth Ave. Avenues A, B, C and D are short 
avenues east of First Ave. Lexington Ave. is between Third and 
Fourth Aves., north of 21st St., and Madison Ave. lies between 
Fourth and Fifth Aves., north of 23d St. North of 34th St., 
Fourth Ave. is called Park Ave. ; north of 59th St., Ninth Ave. is 
called Columbus Ave. ; Tenth Ave. is called Amsterdam Ave. ; and 
Eleventh Ave. is called West End Ave. as far as 106th St., where 
it ends at Broadway ; Sixth Ave. is called Lenox Ave. above 110th 
St. A few other avenues in the upper part of the island have dis- 
tinctive names but are of little importance. 

Fifth Ave. begins at Washington Sq., a block south of 8th St., 
and runs through the middle of the island to the Harlem River 
at 142d St. 

Broadway begins at the Battery, the southernmost part of 
Manhattan Island, runs northeasterly to E. 10th St., then north- 
erly, crossing Fifth Ave. at 23d St., Sixth Ave. at 34th St., Sev- 
enth Ave. at 43d St., Eighth Ave. at 59th St., Columbus Ave. at 
65th St., Amsterdam Ave. at 72d St., and it meets West End Ave. 
at 106th St. It is more nearly due north and south than any 
other street on the island. 

There is no system in the arrangement or naming of streets 
in the lower part of the city ; still, the stranger should have no 
difficulty in determining his location, as the elevated structure or 
some' other prominent land mark is visible from almost every 
street corner. 

The stranger should study the map and fix in his mind a few 
important points which will serve as land marks. These are the 
Battery, City Hall Park (Woolworth Building and Municipal 
Building), Madison Sq. (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 
Tower), Times Sq. (Times Building), Washington Sq. (Wash- 
ington Arch) and Central Park Plaza, Fifth Ave. and 59th St. 

TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES comprise the subway. 
4 elevated railroad lines, 17 street-car lines running north and 
south, 22 cross-town lines running east and west, and a stage 
line. Besides these there are a number of taxicab and carriage 
companies. 

The SUBWAY SYSTEM consists of a main line from Long 
Island Railroad station at Atlantic and Flatbush Aves., Brooklyn, 



King's How to See Nezv York. 7 

to 96th St. and Broadway. From this point there are two 
branches, the Broadway line running to Broadway and 242d St. 
(Van Cortlandt Park), and the Lenox Ave. branch, running to 
180th St. entrance of Bronx Park. 

The West side (Broadway) branch runs as an elevated struc- 
ture north of Dyckman St., and the East side (Lenox Ave.) 
branch runs as an elevated structure north of 149th St. 

A loop of the subway connects the old Brooklyn Bridge with 
the Williamsburg Bridge, with stations at Chambers, Canal, 
Grand Sts. and Williamsburg Bridge. Brooklyn trains run over 
this loop at present. 

STATIONS— Main Line : *Atlantic Ave., *Nevins St., *Hoyt 
St., *Borough Hall, Brooklyn; (South Ferry), *Bowling Green, 
*Wall St., *Fulton St., (City Hall), *Brooklvn Bridge, Worth 
St., Canal St., Spring St., Bleecker St., Astor PI. at 8th St., *14th 
St., 18th St., 23d St., 28th St., 3.3d St., *Grand Central Station, 
Times Square at 42d St. and Broadway, 50th St.. Columbus Cir- 
cle at 60th St. and Broadway, 66th St., *72d St., 79th St., 86th St., 
91st St., *96th St. 

Broadway Branch : 103d St., 110th St. or Cathedral Parkway, 
116th St., Manhattan St., 137th St., 145th St., 157th St., 168th St.,, 
181st St., 190th St., Dyckman St., 207th St., 215th St. Bronx: 
225th St., 231st St., 238th St., 242d St., at Van Cortlandt Park. 

Lenox Ave. Branch: 110th St., 116th St., 125th St., 135th 
St., (145th St.). Bronx: Mott Ave., 149th St. and Third Ave., 
Jackson Ave., Prospect Ave., Intervale Ave., Simpson St., Free- 
man St., 174th St., 177th St., 180th St., Bronx Park. 

Express trains run between Atlantic Ave. and the Broadway 
and Bronx terminals from 5 A. M. to 1 A. M., stopping at all 
stations south of Brooklyn Bridge and north of 96th St. Some 
express trains on the Broadway line run to and from South Ferry 
on a short spur from Bowling Green station. Local trains gen- 
erally run to and from Brooklyn Bridge, around a loop under 
City Hall Park, with a station on the Broadway side of the park. 
The local Broadway line trains generally run as far as 137th St. ; 
the local Lenox Ave. trains run to 135th St., then on a spur to 
H5th St. and Lenox xA.ve. During the early morning hours, 
when express trains are not running, local trains run between the 
Brooklyn and Bronx terminals. Running time of express trains 
between Bowling Green and the west side terminal is 43 minutes, 
between Bowling Green and the Brooklyn terminal 7 minutes. 



* Express stops, also all stations above 96th St. 
Stations in ( ) are on braneb spurs. 



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Fare. 5 cents, with free transfer between local and express trains 
everywhere and between subway and elevated railway at 149th 
St. and Third Ave. 

The destination of trains is indicated by colored li.^hts on top 
of the first car, signs in the corner windows of the cars, and on 
express stations by illuminated signs, corresponding in color with 
the lights on the first car. It is also announced by the guards 
of the train and station attendants. Two red lights indicate a 
Broadway express ; two white lights a Broadway local. A red 
and a green light are carried on Lenox Ave. express trains, and 
two green lights on Lenox Ave. locals. Traffic being mainly south 
bound in the morning and north bound in the evening, such trains 
are uncomfortably crowded during the rush hours. 




THE SUBWAY, 



The present subway system is probably the greatest work ever 
undertaken by a municipality, yet it is but a small part of the 
complete system which is under construction. Built to accommo- 
date 500, o5o passengers daily, its average for year ending June 
30, 1913, was 963,132, the total number of tickets sold in the year 
ending June 30, 1913, being 327.471,510. 

The subway was constructed by the city and leased to the 
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the contracts being awarded 
January 15, 1900. and completed October 24, 1904, and cost $75,- 
000,000, one-third of which was spent for equipment, power- 
houses, rolling-stock, etc. Total length. 26.3 miles, with 85.2 miles 
of tracks. The entire system, as planned with the elevated rail- 
road, which will form part of the rapid transit system, will cover 
nearly 630 miles, costing about $350,000,000. 

The ELEVATED RAILROAD SYSTEM comprises four line?, 
which start from South Ferrv. The Sixth and Ninth Ave. lines 



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run on the west side of the city to Eighth Ave. and 155th St. ; the 
Second Ave. and Third Ave. lines run on the east side to Third 
Ave. and 129th St. A spur on the east side runs from Chatham 
Sq. to City Hall, another runs from Third Ave. and 34th St. to 
Long Island Ferry, at the foot of E. 34th St. ; still another runs 
from Third Ave. and 42d St. to Grand Central Station. An ex- 
tension from 129th St. and Third Ave. crosses Harlem River and 
goes through the Bronx to 198th St. and Webster Ave., the 
entrance to the Botanical Gardens in Bronx Park. All trains 
from and to City Hall are Third Ave. Bronx trains. Second Ave. 
trains go over the Bronx extension on Sundays, and during the 
morning rush hours some start at the Freeman St. station (sub- 
way), join the elevated railroad at 149th St., going over the Third 
Ave. route to 129th St., then down Second Ave. These return 
over the same route during the evening rush hours. 

On the Sixth Ave. line there is a spur from 53d St. to 58th; 
St. and Sixth Ave. The spurs, except the one to City Hall, are 
served by shuttle cars. The Second and Third Ave, roads use 
the same tracks and stations between the Battery and Chatham 
Sq. ; the Sixth and Xinth Ave. roads use the same tracks and 
stations north of 53d St. and Ninth Ave. 

STATIONS. — Second Ave. Line: South Ferry, Hanover Sq., 
Fulton St., Franklin Sq., Chatham Sq., Canal St., Grand St., Riving- 
ton St., 1st, 8th, 14th, 19th, 23d, 34th, 42d, 50th, 57th, 65th, 72d, 
81st, 86th, 92d, 99th, 105th, 111th, 117th. 121st, 127th and 129th Sts. 

Third Ave. Line: Same as preceding to Chatham Sq., Canal 
St., Grand St., Houston St., 9th, 14th. 18th, 23d, 28th, 34th, 42d, 
47th, 53d, 59th, 67th, 76th, 84th, 89th, 99th, 106th, 116th, 125th and 
129th Sts. The stations in the Bronx are 133d, 138th, 143d, 149th, 
156th, 161st. 166th, 169th Sts., Wendover Ave., 174th, 177th or Tre- 
mont Ave., 180th, 183d Sts., Pelham Ave. or Fordham, Bronx Park. 

Sixth Ave. Line: South Ferrv. Battery PI.. Rector St., Cort- 
landt St., Park PI., Chambers, Franklin, Grand, Bleecker, 8th, 14th, 
18th, 23d, 28th, 33d, 38th, 42d, 50th and 58th Sts. and Sixth Ave., 
53d St. and Eighth Ave., 59th St. and Ninth Ave., 66th, 72d, 81st, 
86th, 93d, 104th Sts. and Columbus Ave., 110th, 116th, 125th, 
130th, 135th. 140th, 145th and 155th Sts. and Eighth Ave. 

Ninth Ave. Line: South Ferry, Battery PL, Rector, Cort- 
landt, Barclay, Warren, Franklin, Desbrosses, Houston, Chris- 
topher, 14th, 23d, 30th, 34th, 42d. 50th, 59th Sts., and northward 
the same as on Sixth Ave. There is free transfer at South Ferry 
between East Side and West Side lines; transfers between Second 
and Third Aves., at Chatham Sq., 34th St. (shuttle), and 129th 
St, ; between Third Ave. line and subway at 149th St. ; between 



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Sixth Ave-, and Ninth Ave., going south at 59th St., and at all 
junctions of main and shuttle lines. Fare, 5 cts. 

The destination of trains is indicated by colored lamps car- 
ried at the head of the first car, by signs on the front of the first 
car and in the corner windows. Express trains are run during 
the rush hours on the Third Ave. line ; these make no stops 
between 42d and 116th or 129th, and but few stops south of 42d 
St. Expresses on Ninth Ave. make no stop between Chris- 
topher and 116th Sts. There are also "local expresses" on this 
line, which make no stops between Christopher and 66th Sts. 

SURFACE LINES on Manhattan Island are nearly all con- 
trolled by the New York Railways Company, whose cars are 
painted green, or the Third Ave. Railway Company, whose cars 
are painted red. Transfers are issued, by which the passenger can 
make two transfers, always going in the same direction over the 
cars of the same company. The destination of the cars is indi- 
cated by signs on the front and sides of the roof of the car, some- 
times by signs on the dashboard and hanging from the roof over 
the front platform. 

Of the New York Railways Company's lines, the following 
will be of chief use to the visitor : Fourth and Madison Aves., 
Broadway and branches, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Aves. 

The Fourth and Madison Ave. Line runs from Brooklyn 
Bridge through Centre St. to Grand St., to Bowery, to Fourth 
Ave., to 42d St., to Aladison Ave., to 135th St. Some cars start 
at Broadway and Astor PI., joining main line at Fourth Ave. and 
Astor PI. A portion of the Fourth Ave. cars are operated to 
Brooklyn to and across the Williamsburg Bridge. These cars are 
marked "Brooklyn." 

The Broadway Line follows four routes. The Broadway and 
Seventh Ave. line runs up Broadway to Seventh Ave., to 59th St. 
The Broadway and Amsterdam Ave. line follows the foregoing 
route to 53d St., then west to Ninth Ave, to Broadway, to Am- 
sterdam Ave. (at 71st St.), to 125th St. The Broadway and Co- 
lumbus Ave. line follows the route of the preceding line to 65th St., 
continues up Columbus Ave. to 109th St., to Manhattan Ave., to 
116th St., to Lenox Ave., to 146th St. The Broadway and Lexing- 
ton Ave. line runs up^ Broadway to 23d St., to Lexington Ave., to 
116th St. Cars marked "Broadway and Lexington Ave." proceed 
up Lexington Ave. to 130th St. Those marked "Lexington and 
Lenox Aves." turn west at 116th St.. to Lenox Ave., to 146th St. 
Some cars run north only as far as 99th St. Some of the south- 
bound cars on the four routes run only to Houston or Murray 
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The Sixth Ave. Line runs from South Ferry through several 
short streets, to Barclay St., to W. Broadway, to 4th St., to Sixth 
Ave., to 53d St., to Nmth Ave., follov^ing the route of the Broad- 
wav and Amsterdam Ave. line. Some cars on this line run on 
Sixth Ave. to 59th St. 

The Seventh Ave. and Brooklyn Line starts at Williams- 
burg Bridge Plaza, over the Bridge, to Clinton St., through sev- 
eral East Side streets to 8th St., to Greenwich Ave., to Seventh 
Ave., then north to 59th St. 

The Eighth Ave. Line follows the route of the Sixth Ave. 
line to W. Broadway, to Canal St., to Hudson St., to Eighth Ave. 
The cars marked "Polo Grounds" run to Eighth Ave. and 159th 
St. Those marked "Central Bridge" turn off at 150th St. into 
IMcComb's Dam Road to Central Bridge. 

The Ninth Ave. Line runs on Washington and Greenwich Sts. 
from Cortlandt or Christopher St. to Ninth Ave., to 53d St. 

The principal crosstown lines of this system pass through 8th, 
14th, 23d, 34th, 86th, 116th and 145th Sts. There are horse car 
lines in the lower part of the city, passing through Chambers and 
]\Iadison Sts., another through Houston and Prince Sts. ; another, 
now using storage battery cars, from Williamsburg Bridge through 
Spring and other streets, to Desbrosses St, Ferry. 

Of the THIRD AVE. System, the principal line is the Third 
Ave. Line, which runs through Park Row, Bowery, Third Ave. to 
125th St. Cars marked "Harlem" proceed to 129th St. Those 
marked "Fort George" turn west at 125th St. to Amsterdam Ave., 
to Fort George (198th St.). There are several important branches 
of this line. One starts at the Post Office, follows the main line 
to Grand St., to Clinton St., to Delancey St., and across Williams- 
burg Bridge. Another starts at the foot of E. 125th St., runs on 
125th St. to Amsterdam Ave., to 161st St., to Broadway, to Kings- 
bridge (225th St.). 

The Broadway Line starts from 42d St. and Tenth Ave., runs 
north on Tenth Ave. to Broadway at 72d St., to Manhattan St., 
to Fort Lee Ferry. 

The crosstown lines of this system pass through Grand St., 
28th and 29th Sts., 42d St., 110th St. and 125th St. Some of the 
42d St. cars run to E. 34th St. Ferry, others up Third Ave. to 
59th St. and across the Queensboro Bridge. 

Two crosstown lines controlled by this system transfer to all 
lines but do not issue second transfers. They are the 59th St. 
line and the Manhattan Bridge line, which crosses the bridge from 
Brooklyn and passes through Canal St. westward to Desbrosses 
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STAGES. The Fifth Ave. Coach Company runs a line of 
motor omnibuses on Fifth Ave., Riverside Drive and other streets. 

The Fifth Ave. Line starts at Washington Sq., runs north on 
Fifth Ave. to 110th St., to Seventh Ave., to 145th St. Some of 
the 'buses run only to 90th St. The time of the whole trip, about 
50 min ; to 90th St., only about 35 min. Below 90th St. the 
'buses run every 3 or 4 mm. The 145th St. 'buses carry on the 
front a white destination sign with black letters, the 90th St. ones 
a white sign with green letters. 

The Riverside Drive Line starts at Washington Sq., runs 
north on Fifth Ave., to 57th St., to Broadway, to W. 72d St., to 
Riverside Drive, to 96th St. From 3.45 to 11 p. m., these 'buses 
continue up Riverside to 135th St., to Broadway. Running time to 
135th St., about 55 min. ; to 96th St., about 40 min. ; leaving every 
5 or 10 min. These 'buses carry a red sign with white letters. 

The Pennsylvania Station Line starts from the Seventh Ave. 
entrance of the station, runs east on 32d St. to Fifth Ave. and 
the preceding route to 135th St. and Broadway. The 'buses leave 
every 5 or 10 min., and make the trip in about 45 min. They 
carry a black sign with white letters. 

A most agreeable mode of transportation for sight-seeing 
purposes is the open automobile. One of the most popular Auto 
Renters is KENNEDY & SHELLEY, located at 164 W. 46th St., 
just east of Broadway. Day or night service can be had by tele- 




BROOKLYN BRIDGE. 



phoning Bryant 366 or 339. Either open or closed Packard cars 
can be hired by the hour, day or week at reasonable rates, which 
may be had on application. 

TAXICABS will be found at all the hotels and on public stands 
in many parts of the city. The legal rate is, for two persons, 30 



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cts. for first half mile, and 10 cts. for each succeeding quarter 
mile; for three or more passengers, 40 cts. for first half mile, and 
10 cts. for each succeeding one-sixth mile. For waiting time, the 
charge is $1.50 per hour. For horse cabs, the legal rate is 50 cts. 
for first mile, and 20 cts. for each succeeding half mile. 



MANHATTAN BRIDGE. 

FERRIES. With the opening of the subway to Brooklyn and 
the new bridges across the East River, the East River ferries, 
except South Ferry, are but little used by foot passengers. The 
East River ferries, from the Battery northward, are : 

Hamilton Ave. Ferry, Whitehall St., to Hamilton Ave., Brooklyn ; 
South Ferry, foot of Whitehall St., to Atlantic Ave., Brooklvn ; 
39th St. Ferry, foot of Whitehall St., to 39th St., Brooklyn; 
Wall St. Ferry, foot of Wall St., to Montague St., Brooklyn; 
Fulton St. Ferry, foot of Fulton St., to Fulton St., Brooklyn ; 
Roosevelt St. Ferry, foot of Roosevelt St., to Broadway, Brooklyn ; 
Houston St. Ferry, foot of Houston St., to Grand St., Brooklyn ; 
Greenpoint Ferry, E. 10th St., to Greenpoint Ave., Brooklyn ; 
23d St. Ferrv, foot of E. 23d St., to Greenpoint Ave., Brooklyn: 
23d St. Ferry, foot of E. 23d St., to Broadway, Brooklyn ; Long 
Island Railroad Ferry, foot of E. 34th St., to Borden Ave., 
Long Island City (Hunter's Point) ; Astoria Ferry, foot of E. 
92d St., to Fulton Ave., Long Island City (Astoria); College 
Point Ferrv, foot of E. 99th St., to North Beach and College 
Point ; College Point Ferry, foot of E. 134th St. to College Point 
(not in winter). 

The ferries across the Hudson River, except the one to Fort 
Lee from foot of Manhattan St. and W. 130th St., are operated 
by railroads having terminals on the Jersey side. 

The Pennsylvania Railroad has ferries at Cortlandt and Des- 



14 Kin^^'s How to Sec Nezv York. 

brosses Sts., to its old terminal at Montgomery St., Jersey City. 

Erie. Railroad, from Chambers and W. 2:)d Sts., to Pavonia 
Ave., Jersey City. 

Central Railroad of New Jersey, from Liberty and W. 23d 
Sts., to Communipaw. 

Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad, from Barclay, 
Christopher and W. 23d Sts., to Hoboken. 

West Shore Railroad, from Cortlandt and 42d Sts., to Wee- 
haw'ken. 

Other ferries are the Municipal Ferries, foot of Whitehall St., 
to St. George and Stapleton, Staten Island, and to 39th St., Brook- 
lyn, the Government Ferry at the Battery to Ellis Island (the 
immigrant landing-place), a Government Ferry adjoining the lat- 
ter to Governor's Island, a ferry from the Battery to the Statue of 




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Liberty, and city ferries from E. 26th St.. E. 53d St., E. 70th St. 
and E. 126th St. to Blackwell's Island and other islands in the 
East River holding city institutions. 

The visitor will have little use for the ferries except the 
Municipal Ferry to Staten Island. This ferry, which is owned by 
the city, has the largest and fastest ferry boats in the world, and 
the trip across the bay, lasting 20 minutes, is one of the most 
delightful short sails from Manhattan Island. Fare, 10 cents for 
round trip. 

The HUDSON TUNNELS form the latest connecting link 
between New York and the New Jersey railroad terminals, steam- 
ship piers and trolley lines covering the metropolitan district. 
The main line of the Hudson and ^ilanhattan Railroad extends 
from the Hudson Terminal at Cortlandt St., New York, under the 
Hudson River to Exchange PI., Jersey City, thence westerly to 
Grove St., and thence to Summit Ave. Joint service with the 



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Pennsylvania Railroad is operated over the above route, and 
thence bv trackage agreement over the Pennsylvania line to Park 
PI., Newark. 

From Exchange PI, Jersey City, a line extends northerly 
under the Erie Railroad Terminal to the Delaware, Lackawanna 
& Western Railroad Terminal in Hoboken. From a point near 
Hoboken, another line extends easterly under the Hudson River to 
Christopher St. and Sixth Ave., New York, and thence northerly 
with stations at Christopher St., near Greenwich, 9th, 14th, 19th, 
23d and 28th Sts. on Sixth Ave., to the terminal at Broadway 
and 33d St. 

BRIDGES. Four great bridges cross the East River, and 12 
cross the Harlem River. The famous Brooklyn Bridge, from 
Park Row and City Hall Park to Fulton and Sands Sts., Brook- 




QUEENSBORO BRIDGE. 

lyn, opened in 1883, is now the smallest of the East River bridges. 
Its total length is 6,016 feet; width, 85 feet; height at center over 
the river, 135 feet; height of towers above hioh water, 272 feet. 
It took 13 years to build and cost $15,000,000. Since its opening, 
about $8,000,000 have been spent on improvements. 

Manhattan Bridge, from Bowery and Canal St. to Nassau 
and Bridge Sts., Brooklyn, is the greatest suspension bridge in the 
world. It is 6,855 feet long, 122 feet 6 inches wide, the elevation 
at the center above high water is 135 feet and the steel towers are 
336 feet high. It was begun in 1901, opened in 1909, cost about 
$14,000,000, besides $12,000,000 for land for approaches. 

Williamsburg Bridge, from Delancey and Clinton Sts., to the 
plaza at New St., Brooklyn, is 7,308 feet long, 118 feet wide and 
the towers are 335 feet high. It was begun in 1896, opened in 1903, 
cost $14,000,000 and $9,000,000 for land. 

Queensboro Bridge, from Second Ave. and 59th St. to Jackson 





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Ave., Long- Island City, is the second in length and the first in 
weight and carrying capacity of the world's cantilever bridges. It 
is 8,600 feet long. 89^ feet wide, with a roadway 53^ feet wide ; 
begun 1901, opened 1909, cost $i;:.:^00,000 and $4,500,000 for land. 




WASHINGTON AND HIGH BRIDGES. Harlem River. 

Trolley lines cross all four bridges, and Brooklyn elevated trains 
cross Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, and will cross the other 
two. 

The bridges across the Harlem River are : 

Willis Ave. Bridge, from First Ave. and 125th St. to Willis 
Ave. and 134th St. ; foot and vehicles. Elevated Railroad Bridge, 
from Second Ave. and 129th St. to Lincoln Ave. ; foot and 
"L'' road; Third Ave. Bridge, Third Ave. and 129th St., to Third 
Ave. and 136th St. ; trolley, foot and vehicles. New York Central 
R. R. Bridge, from Park Ave. and 133d St. to Park Ave. and 138th 
St. ; railroad. Madison Ave. Bridge, from Madison Ave. and 
137th St. to Cromwell Ave., 138th St.; foot, vehicles and trol- 
ley. 145TH St. Bridge, from Lenox Ave. and 145th St. to Exterior 
St. and 149th St.; foot, vehicles and trolley. McComb's Dam 
Bridge, from Seventh Ave. and 155th St. to Jerome Ave. and 162d 
St. ; foot, vehicles and trolley. Putnam Railroad Bridge, from 
Eighth Ave. and 157th St. to Sedgwick Ave. and 161st St. ; foot 
and railroad. High Bridge, near Amsterdam Ave. and 174th St., 
to Aqueduct Ave. and 170th St. ; foot. Washington Bridge, 
Amsterdam Ave. and 181st St., to Aqueduct Ave. and 172d St. ; 
foot, vehicles and trolley. University Heights Bridge, W. 207th 
St., Manhattan, to 184th St.; foot, vehicles and trolley. Farmers' 
Bridge, across Spuyten Duvvil Creek, at 223d St., to West King's 
Bridge Road ; foot and vehicles. King's Bridge, across Spuyten 
Duyvil Creek at Broadway and 230th St. ; foot, vehicle and "L" 



King's Hozv to See Nezv York. 19 

road. Foot Bridge, across Spuyten Diiyvil Creek just west of King's 
Bridge; foot. Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, mouth of Harlem Ship 
Canal at Hudson River ; railroad. Harlem Ship Canal Bridge, 
across Harlem Ship Canal at Broadway and 221st St. ; foot, "L" 
road and vehicle. 

Willis Ave. Bridge has an approach from 133d St. and Brown 
PL, Bronx ; Third Ave. Bridge has an approach from 130th St. 
and Lexington Ave. ; Madison Ave. Bridge has an approach from 
138th St. and Fifth Ave. ; Central Bridge has a viaduct approach 
from 155th St. and St. Nicholas Ave. ; Central Bridge has a via- 
duct approach from 161st St. and Cromwell Ave., Bronx. 

The only bridges of especial interest are High Bridge, a granite 
structure of 14 arches, the foot walk, 116 feet above the river, 
carrying the pipes of the original Croton Aqueduct; McComb's 
Dam Bridge, with its viaduct approaches, and Washington Bridge, 
considered to be the most beautiful of the city's bridges. It con- 
sists of two steel arches, each having a span of 510 feet and a 
height of 135 feet. The bridge, with its approaches, is 2,399 feet 
long, 86 feet wide and cost $2,700,000. 

DISTANCES. The distance from the Battery to City Hall is 
^'i mile, from City Hall to Houston St. along Broadway one mile. 
Along Broadway the distance from Houston St. to 23d St. is 1^4 
miles; from 23d St. to 59th St. two miles, the whole distance from 
the Battery to Central Park, at 59th St. and Broadway, being 
live miles. 

Along the avenues 20 blocks are a mile, and between avenues 
7 blocks are about a mile. The distance from Fifth Ave. to the 
river on either side is from 1 to V/i miles. 

HOTELS. To give a list of the hundreds of hotels in New 
York City would simply bewilder the stranger. The hotel dis- 
trict in which most of the large hotels are found lies between 
Broadway and Park Ave., from 24th to 59th St. Many have 
world-wide reputations, others not so well known have distinc- 
tive characteristics, still others do not advertise extensively, yet in 
appointments, meals and hotel facilities satisfy the most exacting. 

An arbitrary classification may be made : Into ultrafash- 
ionable, having a minimum rate for a room of $3 a day; fashion- 
able, with a minimum rate of $2.50; first-class, with a minimum 
rate of $2 ; good, with a minimum rate of $1.50, and fair, with 
a minimum rate of $1. Room with bath usually costs from 50 
cts. to $1 more. There are, however, excellent hotels which have 
a few small rooms for which a charge of $1 is made, while some 
hotels with a minimum rate of $2.50 possess no other advantage 
over cheaper hotels than an old reputation or a fashionable loca- 



20 Kins's How to See New York. 

tion. Fashionable, in this classification, does not necessarily 
imply that the hotel is patronized by "society folks." Some, like 
the Manhattan and the Belmont, near Grand Central Station, 
attract mainly business people who desire the best hotel accom- 
modations obtainable, yet want to stay near the railroad station. 
Others, like the \lane Antoinette, Ansonia, Bretton Hall, Ma- 
jestic and similar great houses on upper Broadway (north of 
59th St.) and Central Park West are really family hotels cater- 
ing mainly to permanent patrons, though having accommoda- 
tions for transient guests. 

The Martha Washington Hotel, on 29th St., near Fifth Ave., 
is a good hotel exclusively for women, the restaurant alone being 
open to men. 

A few hotels near Broadway and 42d St. attract a sporting 
element, while some have a large theatrical patronage. The 
vicious "Raines' law" hotels, which the police occasionally raid, 
are usually small establishments outside of the hotel district. 

Visitors should select their stopping-place either from the 
experience of friends or from advertisements before their arrival. 
Xever leave the choice to the hack or taxicab driver. In a few 
instances two hotels have the same name, or similar names. The 
famous Belmont Hotel is on 42d St., opposite Grand Central 
Station, and another house having the same name is on 4.5th St. 
The fashionable Cumberland Hotel on Broadway and 54th St. 
has a lowly namesake on Third Ave. Churchill's is a famous 
restaurant at Broadway and 49th St. ; Churchill Hotel is a small 
house at Broadway and 14th St. A list of the best hotels will 
be found on pages 182 and 183. 

RESTAURANTS are attached to almost all hotels and 
hundreds are scattered over the city. A few hotels are run on 
the American plan, the rate including meals, but the visitor whose 
time is limited will have little opportunity to return to the hotel 
for lunch or dinner if he wishes to do much sight-seeing. 

There is a wider range in the character and class of restau- 
rants than of hotels. Delmonico's, Sherry's and the restaurants 
attached to the fashionable hotels are quiet, refined, with cuisine 
and service unsurpassed and charges high. In others with equally 
high charges more attention is paid to the surroundings, music 
and side shows than to the quality, quantity and service of the 
meals. There is music in the evening in almost all good res- 
taurants, but some have in addition a cabaret performance, 
dancing, singing, and some have unique attractions or surround- 
inps. It is an interesting experience to take dinner under tie 
rafters, in a cellar surrounded by wine casks, in a room repre- 



King's Hozv to See Nezv York. 21 

senting a jungle, or the dining-hall of an old German Rathhaus. 
The stranger visits these places under the impression that he is 
seeing life in New York, but the New Yorker rarely visits them 
except when taking his country cousin sightseeing. Many res- 
taurants advertise low-priced table d'hote meals, but some fail 
to state that such meals are furnished only during certain hours, 
and at other times meals are furnished a la carte and the prices 
are then high. In restaurants furnishing low-priced table d'hote 
meals with wine, a drinkable quality of wine is usually supplied 
at a slight extra cost. Among the prominent show places in the 
hotel district are Shanley's, Churchill's, Lorber's, Maxim's, Rei- 
senweber's, Faust's and Healy's, all on or near Broadway. These 
are popular resorts for after-theatre parties and are usually 
crowded from 11 P. M. to 1 A. M. 

There are a number of foreign restaurants in New York, 
some of which are well worth a visit. Among the German res- 
taurants are Liichow's, on 14th St., and Allaire's, on 17th St., 
quiet, not gaudy nor elaborate, but good. The Hofbrauhaus, the 
Kaiserhof and the Wiirzburger Hofbrauhaus are elaborate show 
places. Bustanoby's and the Parisian are elaborate French 
restaurants, with cabaret performances and dancing as attrac- 
tions. Mouquin's, Bosquet and the Rotisserie are quiet, unosten- 
tatious French restaurants, where the food and prices rather than 
the side shows attract patrons. The large American restaurants 
generally furnish French and Italian dishes. The best-known 
Italian restaurants are the Roma. Moretti, Colaizzi. Guffanti, 
Roversi, Carlos, all near Broadway, and Gonfarone. The Roma 
is the mose elaborate of these. Spanish restaurants are found 
on 14th St., west of Sixth Ave., and 23d St., west of Eigth Ave. ; 
they are generally small places. Hungarian restaurants are 
found in the Hungarian section on lower Second Ave., and east- 
ward. The best known are Little Hungary and Cafe Boheme. 
In the hotel district is Barth's. 

The Albemarle-Hoffman, on 24th St.. makes a specialty of 
English cooking. The Ritz-Carlton, which follows in style and 
methods its ultrafashionable namesake in London, has a similar 
restaurant. A few chop houses, like Browne's and Keene's, make 
a specialty of English dishes. The Hotel Athens, on E. 42d St., 
supplies Greek dishes to order. There are a number of Chinese 
restaurants in the hotel district, Kennedy's, the Tokio and the 
Pekin being elaborate show places, with Oriental fixings and 
Broadway cabaret attachments. There are several elaborate 
Chinese restaurants in the Chinese quarter, those most frequently 
visited by whites being, the Tuxedo. Port Arthur, Delmonico 



22 Ki)ig's Hozi' to See Nezu York. 

and Alandarin. These, as well as the foreign restaurants in the 
hotel section, are really show places for strangers, the restaurants 
patronized by the foreigners themselves being located in the for- 
eign quarters. 

Lunch rooms are scattered all over the city, Child's alone 
having 46. These furnish light meals at a low price. The tea 
rooms, a recent innovation, supplying light meals during the day 
and patronized mainly by women, are found in the women's 
shopping district. One of the best is the Scotch Tea Room, at 
Xo. 31 W. 46th St. The historic associations connected with 
Fraunce's Tavern in Broad St., the quaint surroundings of Ye 
Olde Taverne, in Duane St., and the views from the Garret Res- 
taurant make these the most interesting restaurants in the lower 
part of the city. 

AMUSEMENTS. There are 115 theatres, including five roof 
gardens, in Manhattan, with a seating capacity of about 155,000 
and a weekly attendance of about 1,000,000. There are 800 mo- 
tion picture shows, with a daily attendance of not far from a 
quarter million. Besides these there are 34 theatres and several 
hundred motion-picture shows in Brooklyn, half a dozen amuse- 
ment beaches, including Coney Island, which has had days when 
half a million visitors were carried to it by car and boat. There 
are hundreds of dance halls, amusement grounds, exhibition halls, 
athletic fields, recreation centers and piers, etc. 

Theatres. The Hippodrome, with a stage 200 ft. long and 
110 ft. deep, is one of the sights of the city. The summer visitor 
should visit one of the roof gardens, several of which are within 
a short distance of Times Sq. The Metropolitan Opera House 
is world famous. The Century Theatre is one of the most mag- 
nificent in the country. The Little Theatre, on W. 44th St., is 
a unique place, having a seating capacity of 299. Philipp's and 
the Irving Place Theatres give performances in German. The 
Knickerbocker, New York, New Amsterdam and Casino Thea- 
tres have stages suitable for a large chorus and generally present 
musical comedies. The Princess gives four or five one-act plays 
at each performance. The Winter Garden usually presents a 
conglomeration of musical comedy, farce and ballet, with a large 
chorus and a few famous dancers and comedfans. The Empire pre- 
sents 'light comedies. The Vitagraph, formerly the Criterion, now 
shows motion pictures. On and near the Bowery are several large 
theatres, giving plays in the German-JewMsh iarpon. There are 
eight vaudeville and six burlesque houses in Alanhattan, and 
many of the moving-picture houses give vaudeville performances. 
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King's How to See Neiv York. 23 

Madison Square Garden houses the circus, wild west show, horse 
show, fairs and exhibitions. Grand Central Palace is another 
huge exhibition hall, and fairs and exhibitions are occasionally 
held in armories. These are advertised in the daily press. 

Concerts are usually given in theatres on Sunday evenings, 
but the so-called sacred concerts given at the vaudeville and bur- 
lesque theatres on Sundays are really vaudeville performances 
witliout stage make-up. The classical concerts given by the 
Philharmonic, Oratorio and other musical societies are held in 
Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Lyceum, Mendelssohn Hall and other 
halls especially adapted for such purpose. During the summer 
months public open-air concerts are given in the parks and on 
the recreation piers. These piers are owned by the city and have 
an upper floor with benches, a band stand and various amuse- 
ments for children. 

Athletic Fields. The Polo Grounds, where the profes- 
sional baseball games and big college football games are held, 
are at Eighth Ave. and 155th St. The New York Athletic Club 
has private grounds on Travers Island in Long Island Sound, 
just beyond the city limits. The Pastime Athletic Club has 
grounds at the foot of E. 90th St. The Irish-American Athletic 
Club generally holds its games at Celtic Park, just beyond the 
borough line of Brooklyn. The fashionable Crescent Athletic 
Club, of Brooklyn, has grounds at the foot of 85th St., Brooklyn. 
Ebbett's Field, the home grounds of the Brooklyn Baseball Club, 
is at Montgomery and Bedford Ayes., Brooklyn. There are 
10 other athletic fields in Manhattan and Bronx, and 26 in 
Brooklyn and Queens. Many of the smaller public parks con- 
tain gymnasium apparatus and the large parks contain ath- 
letic fields, ball grounds, tennis courts, golf links and grounds 
for other sports. There is skating in winter on the lakes 
in Central Park, Crotona Park, Van Cortlandt Park and Pros- 
pect Park, and curling on the small lake in Central Park. 

The Aviation Field is at Mineola, about 20 miles from City 
Hall, reached by Long Island Railroad from Pennsylvania 
Station. 

Horse races are held at Brighton Beach Race Track, Coney 
Island. Belmont Park, just beyond the city line at Queens, and 
at Empire track, Yonkers. Indoor races and games are held at 
Madison Square Garden and the armories. Outdoor bicycle and 
motorcycle races are held at Brighton Beach. 

Rowing races are held on Harlem River. Other sporting 
events, like billiards, bowling and chess tournaments, are held 
in various halls, as announced in the papers. 



Broad 



roaQAvay 

BROADWAY, the most famous street in America, begins at 
the Battery and runs northward throughout the length of 
Manhattan Island and through the Bronx to the city limits at 
Yonkers. The street is really part of the old Albany Post 
Road, which extends to Albany, a distance of 150 miles. 

The street may be roughly divided into the financial section 
south of City Hall, the wholesale section between City Hall and 
Houston St., wholesale and retail section between Houston and 
23d Sts. ; the theatre, hotel and shopping section, familiarly 
known as the "Great White Way," between 23d St. and 59th St. 
North of 59th St., it is a street of magnificent hotels and apart- 
ment houses, a few theatres and but little business aside from 
automobile concerns just above 59th St. 

At the corner of Batterv PI, and facing the Battery, is the 
red brick WASHINGTON BUILDING, one of the earliest of 
the skyscrapers, built by Cyrus W. Field. It occupies the site of 
the Kennedy Mansion, which stood here from 1745 to 1882. Dur- 
ing the Revolution it was the headquarters of Washington, 
Putnam, Howe, Cornwallis and other American and British 
commanders, and later became the Washington Hotel. Adjoining it 
is the 19-story Bowling Green Building. The magnificent marble 
entrance hall, with a pictured glass screen at the end, is well worth 
seeing. On this site stood Livingston and Van Cortlandt man- 
sions, the former being occupied bv the traitor Benedict Arnold 
during his stay in New York, The old STEVENS HOUSE, at 
the corner of Morris St., was once the most fashionable hotel in 
the city. Here was celebrated the marriage of Daniel Webster's 
daughter, the most noted social event of its day. and later the 
public reception of Jenny Lind by Mayor Woodhull. On the 
northwest corner is the Columbia Building, and a few doors 
above, at No. 45, is Aldrich Court, with an elaborately carved 
facade. A tablet on its wall states that it was the site of the 
first habitation of white men on ^Manhattan Island. It is also the 
site of the McComb House, the official residence of President 
Washington in 1790. 

On the opposite side of the street, north of Beaver St., is the 
Welles Building, with a rose granite front, and adjoining it 
is the STANDARD OIL BUILDING, the home of the great 
oil concern. Structurally it is one of the most interesting in the 
city. The original building was nine stories high. It was decided to 
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26 King's Hozv to See Nezv York. 

add six stones, but it was found that the building could not support 
the additional weight. The adjoining building was purchased and 
torn down, and a 15-story steel frame building was erected. From 
the upper stories a cantilever projection was constructed, extend- 
ing over the old building, and the additional six stories were built 
upon this structure. What is now apparently a single building, is 
in reality two_ buildings — a 15-story and a 9-story buildmg, the 
latter having six additional floors resting upon it, but supported by 
the larger building. Just beyond is the 20-story office building, 
No. 42 Broadway. The Exchange Court Building is on the 
south corner of Exchange PI., and on the other corner the 
Columbia-Knickerbocker Trust Building. On the west side is the 
new Adams Express Building, .32 stories, 486 feet high, and the 
Empire Building, corner of Rector St., with arcade to Sixth 
Ave. Elevated station. Opposite, at No. 66, is the Manhattan Life 
Insurance Building, 246 feet high, above which is a tower 102 feet 
high, the beautiful Union Trust Building adjoining, and the 
severely plain, dark red brick building at the southern corner of 
Wall St. This building has 18 stories, is 217 feet high and occu- 
pies a lot 30 by 30. The lot cost, in 1906, $654,456, or $576 a square 
foot. At this rate an acre would cost over $1,500,000, which was 
for many years the record rate for any piece of land. The ground 
floor and basement pay an annual rental of $40,000. At No. 2 
Rector St., back of the churchyard, is the 23-story U. S. Express 
Building. 

North of Rector St. is TRINITY CHURCH, the oldest Epis- 
copal church in the city. The congregation, organized in 1697, 
received from the crown a grant of land extending from about 
Fulton St. to Canal St., between Broadway and Hudson River. 
Although the church sold and gave away large tracts in this 
grant, it still owns property the stated value of which is over 
Si 7,600,000, the actual value being probably far in excess of this. 
The present building, erected in 1846, is a Gothic brown-stone 
structure, its steeple rising to a height of 284 feet. The reredos. 
20 -feet high, a magnificent altar and the bronze doors, holding 
panels illustrating Biblical subjects, were gifts of the Astor fam- 
ily. The altar is 11 feet long, divided into panels, the central 
panel being a cross in mosaic, set with cameos. Standing at the 
head of Wall St., within a few feet of the Stock Exchange, no 
greater contrast can be imagined than the solemn stillness within 
the edifice and the noise and bustle outside. 

Surrounding the church is Trinity Churchyard, one of the few 
burial grounds remaining on Manhattan Island. Here are buried 
Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton, Albert Gallatin, Captain 



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King's How to See Neiv York. 29 

Lawrence and his Lieutenant, Ludlow, who were killed in the 
Chesapeake-Shannon fight ; Stephen Delancey, several Colonial 
Governors and members of their families. Lord Sterling, General 
Kearney, Francis Lewis, John Lamb and other famous New York- 
ers. Opposite the head of Pine St. is the Martyrs' Monument, 
erected in memory of the patriots who died in the British prison 
ships. The oldest gravestone is dated 1681, and some contain 
curious epitaphs. 

North of the Churchyard stands the 21-story Trinity Building, 
with beautiful Gothic fagades fronting on Broadway and the 
Churchyard, and adjoining this and built in the same style is the 
United States Realty Building. These two buildings, with the 
land, cost $15,000,000. On the east side of the street stand the 
United Bank Building, corner Wall St., the 23-story American 
Surety Building, corner Cedar St., and between them the 7-story 
Schermerhorn Building, belonging to the Astor family. When 
the American Surety Building was completed, it was found that 
a cornice at the 22d floor extended over the air space of the 
Schermerhorn Building. To protect the cornice and prevent the 
erection of a high building, which would cut off the light and air, 
the owners of the Surety leased the smaller building for 99 years 
at an annual rental of $75,000. 

The block between Pine and Cedar Sts. was formerly occupied 
by the famous EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE BUILDING, 
which was destroyed by fire in Jan., 1912. A new 36-story build- 
ing is being erected on this site, which in point of size will be 
the largest in the world. 

On the northeast corner of Cedar St. is the AMERICAN 
EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK, 128 Broadway; the fine 
banking and office building, 16 stories, 235 feet in height, with 
47,440 square feet of floor space on a plot of 4,508 square feet, 
was erected in 1901. This bank, founded in 1838, and nationalized 
in 1865, has total resources in excess of $70,000,000, its capital and 
surplus being nearly $10,000,000. Lewis L. Clarke is president. 
Adjoining it is the new building of the Guaranty Trust Company, 
opposite which, at No. 141, is the Washington Life Building. Two 
buildings on the block above. Liberty to Cortlandt Sts., are among 
the greatest in the city. The much-pictured SINGER BUILDING 
contains 41 stories and 6 in the cupola, and rises to a height of 
612 feet above the street. It contains 9^ acres floor space, and at 
night it is lighted by 15,000 electric lights. The tower rests on 36 
caissons sunk to bed rock 92 feet below the curb and is anchored 
with eye bars to withstand a wind pressure of 30 pounds per square 
foot. Not a particle of wood was used in its construction. The 




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adjoining City Investing Building is 34 stories, 418 feet high and 
contains 13^ acres of floor space. Opposite is the large building 
of the Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust Company. On the 
corner is the Broadway-Maiden Lane Building, while just above is 
the six-story building of the Title Guarantee Trust Company. On 
the northwest corner of Dey St. is the building of the Western 
Union Telegraph Company. A time-ball drops precisely at noon 
each day down a pole erected on the tower of this building. 

On the west side of Broadway, between Fulton and'Vesey Sts., 
stands ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL, the oldest church building on 
Manhattan Island. It was erected by Trinity Church between 
1764 and 1766 in what was then a wheat field on the church farm, 
the front facing the river, the rear facing the street. After the 
great fire of 1776, which destroyed Trinity Church, and until 1790. 
when the new Trinity Church was opened, St. Paul's was the 
principal church in the city. The pew occupied by Washington 
is marked by the shield of the United States on the wall, and on 
the opposite side of the church is the pew occupied by Governor 
Clinton, marked by the shield of the State. The body of General 
Richard Montgomery, killed at the unsuccessful storming of Que- 
bec on Christmas Day, 1775, lies behind the chancel. A cenotaph 
to his memory stands outside against the Broadway side of the 
wall. Among those buried in the churchyard are Colonel Beverly 
Robinson, Thomas Addis Emimet, Dr. W^illiam J. MacNevin, etc. 

Opposite St. Paul's Chapel is the marble front of the National 
Park Bank, and at the corner of Ann St. is the 26-story St. Paul 
Building, on the site of the Herald Building. The block from 
Vesey St. to Barclay was occupied by the Astor House, once New 
York's most famous hotel, erected 1836, closed 1913, and partially 
demolished to allow new subway to be constructed. 

On the block above is the WOOLWORTH BUILDING, the 
highest and perhaps the most beautiful office building in the world. 
It is 57 stories, 792 feet high. The observation gallery is open 
to visitors, admission 50 cts. On the ninth floor are the rooms 
of the Merchants' Association, an organization whose aim is to 
foster the trade and welfare of New York. Visitors are welcome. 
Jonas & Co., on the ground floor, sell theatre tickets and souvenirs. 

Opposite the Woolworth Building stands the New York Post 
Ofiice, described in Chapter 7, and, to the north, City Hall Park, 
described in the same chapter. 

At the upper corner of Murray St. is the Postal Telegraph 
Building, and adjoining it is the building of the Home Life Insur- 
ance Company. On the block between Warren and Chambers Sts. 
is the inconspicuous low marble building of the Chemical National 



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WOOLWORTH BUILDING. 
Broadway. Barclay St. to Park Place. 



King's Hozv to See New York. 33 

Bank, and adjoining it, corner Chambers St., is the Shoe and 
Leather Branch of the Metropolitan Bank. From Chambers St. 
northward for about a mile the street is given over principally to 
wholesale trade, with a few large office buildings at the lower end. 

The Stewart Building, occupying the block from Chambers to 
Reade Sts., is the remodeled building erected in 1846 by A. T. 
Stewart for his dry goods store. It is now an office building and 
holds many of the city departments, which will occupy the great 
Municipal Building now nearing completion, at the northeast 
corner of City Hall Park. At the northwest corner of Chambers 
St. and Broadway is the 18-story Broadway Chambers, on the site 
of the Irving House, erected in 1840 and occupied for more than 
20 years by Delmonico's Restaurant. On the next block are the 
East River Savings Bank Building and the Barclay Building on 
the left and the Dun Building on the right. 

Going north from Duane St., the next street on the west side 
is Thomas St., a public thoroughfare owned by the New York 
Hospital. To maintain its claim for proprietorship, the street is 
closed for one day every year. At Worth St. is a house having 
eight ft. frontage, the smallest on Broadway. Corner Leonard 
St. is the magnificent marble building of the New York Life Insur- 
ance Company. Among the tenants of this building is Bradstreet's, 
the general and local offices being on the second to fourth floors. 

The block from Lispenard to Canal St., long occupied by the 
Brandreth Building, will soon be occupied by a new building. At 
the northwest corner of Canal St. and Broadway stands the house 
once the residence of Mayor Costar, now used for commerce and 
offices. The house, except the ground floor, has been little changed 
and well illustrates the fashionable residence of the early '30's. 
The old Prescott House, corner Spring St., now an office and 
commercial building, formerly a noted hotel, is on the site of the 
historian Prescott's residence. Adjoining it was the residence of 
John Jacob Astor. 

The buildings between Canal and 14th Sts. are less interesting 
as a rule than their occupants, many of the latter being among 
the most famous in the business world. Of the buildings that 
may attract attention one is the massive granite warehouse of 
Charles Broadway Rouss, between Spring and Prince Sts. 

J. Fenimore Cooper lived at No. 595. This was a fashionable 
residential section during the '40's. At the northeast corner of 
Bleecker St. is the Manhattan Savings Institution, which in Oct.. 
1878, was robbed of $2,000,000 by burglars. Near Bond St. is the 
Broadway Central Hotel, opened in 1869. 

An immense business house occupies the site of New York 



34 King's Hozv to See New York. 

Hotel, from Washington PI. to Waverly PI. Nearly opposite, 
from about 724 to 730, is a vacant lot, part of which was once 
occupied by the Church of the Messiah. It became an amusement 
resort in 1869, and from that time until it was torn down, in 1903, 
it was known as an unlucky spot. For twelve years various theatrical 
productions failed, and after Harrigan and Hart had had a few 
successful plays there it burned to the ground in 1884. Rebuilt in 
imitation of old London Streets, it continued to be an unfortunate 
site for amusements until no one would use it for the purpose. It 
has been vacant for ten years. An odd sign over a glove store 
opposite Astor PI., used as a trade mark, will attract attention. 
The next two blocks, from 8th to 10th St., are occupied by WANA- 
MAKER'S department store^ the largest in the world. The new 
store is 14 stories high. The old store, from 9th to 10th Sts., was 
opened by A. T. Stewart in 1862, was at that time the finest estab- 
lishment of its kind in the country and was considered so far from 
the shopping, district that people would not go that far north. 
Opposite, corner of 8th St., is the store of John Daniell Sons & Sons. 

At the northeast corner of 10th St. is GRACE CHURCH. 
This beautiful structure, with its pretty close and outdoor pulpit 
on the south and rectory and rectory lawn on the north, is one of 
the most pleasing bits of church architecture in the city. Note 
the ancient Roman terra cotta vase in the rectory yard. Near it 
is an ancient sun dial. At 11th St. is St. Denis Hotel, one of the 
few remaining hotels of the time when this was the fashionable 
hotel district. Opposite is Fleischmann's Bakery and Restaurant, 
where the "bread line" forms nightly about 11.30 to receive a half 
loaf of bread ; this is now a much-appreciated charity. 

UNION SQUARE extends from 14th to 17th St.; the west 
side is Broadway, the east side Fourth Ave. It was arranged on 
the city plan of 1811 and contains about 3J/< acres. In it are a 
central fountain, an equestrian statue of Washington at the south- 
east corner, a statue of Lincoln at the southwest corner and a 
statue of Lafayette, by Bartholdi, between the two, facing down 
Broadway. On the west side of the square is a fine bronze drink- 
ing fountain, presented to the city by D. Willis James. Of the 
buildings surrounding the square, the most noticeable are the Everett 
Building, 17th St. and Fourth Ave.; the Germania Life Building 
on the opposite corner and the Bank of the Aletropolis at 16th St. 
and Broadway. The old Domestic Building, on the east corner of 
14th St., and the building formerly occupied by Tififany & Co.. 
corner of 15th St., are good examples of the iron front architec- 
ture of 40 years ago. From 17th to 23d Sts. there are mainly 
high-class retail concerns, the store signs announcing such well- 



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35 



known names as i\itken, Ar- 
nold Constable Company, Lord 
& Taylor, Brooks Brothers, 
but they are rapidly moving- 
uptown. 

A number of skyscrapers 
have invaded this stretch, in- 
cluding the 20-story building 
at 20th St., and a 22-story 
building at 21st St., and the 
remarkable Fuller Building, 
generallv called the FLAT- 
IRON BUILDING. This 
20-story structure rises to a 
height of 286 ft. and stands 
on a triangular plot, the 22d 
St. base being 92 ft. long, the 
Broadway side 224 ft. and 
the Fifth Ave. side 206 ft. 

MADISON SQUARE lies 
between Madison Ave. on the 
east and Broadway and Fifth 
Ave. on the west, from 23d to 
26th St., and covers an area 
of about 7 acres. It has stat- 
ues of Arthur, Conkling, 
Seward and a much-admired 
statue of Farragut. The Worth 
Monument covers the remains 
of Major-General Worth, of 
Mexican War fame. Once the 
center of wealth and fashion, 
but two or three of the fash- 
ionable residences that once 
surrounded it remain, and of 
the many hotels only the Albe- 
marle and the Hoffman House 
are left. The block from 23d 
to 24th St., now occupied by 
the FIFTH AVE. BUILD- 
ING, was for many years a 
hotel site. When this locality 
was a suburb of New York, 
Corporal Thompson's ]\Iadi- 




FL.VTIIIOX P.riLDIXG 



36 Kings How to See New York. 

son Cottage stood on this site and offered hospitality to travel- 
ers. It was supplanted in 1859 by the famous Fifth Ave. Hotel, 
for years associated with the most notable events. The Fifth 
Ave. Building contains, besides many offices, the rooms of the 
Aldine Association and the Fifth Ave. Restaurant. The Metro- 
politan Life Insurance Building, seen across the park, is described 
in Chapter 12. The temporary wooden structure facing the 
Hoffman House covers the entrance to the shaft for the new 
aqueduct. Similar structures in other parts of the city belong 
either to this work or to the new subway work. 

Going up Broadway, we pass the site of Delmonico's, Twenty- 
sixth St., from Broadway to Fifth Ave., now covered by a sky- 
scraper, the 16-story St. James Building, on the site of St. James 
Hotel at northwest corner, the old but still popular Victoria 
Hotel at 27th St., and the New York office of the National Cash 
Register Company at 28th St. Near the northwest corner is the 
Broadway entrance to Proctor's Fifth Ave. Theatre, the main 
front being on 28th St. This has been an amusement site for 
over 40 years. In 1863 the Provost Marshal's office was here, 
and during the draft riots in July the whole block was burned 
down. The new Hotel Breslin is on the opposite side of the 
street. At the northeast corner of 29th St. is the Gilsey Building, 
which until recently was the Gilsey House, one of the most 
popular hotels in the city a generation ago. On the northwest 
corner is Weber's Theatre, formerly Weber & Field's Music Hall, 
and a few doors above is Daly's Theatre, opened as Banvard's 
Museum in 1867. When it became Daly's Theatre in 1879, it was 
at the upper limit of the theatre district, the lower limit being 
13th St. Now it is at the lower limit, the upper limit being at the 
Lincoln Sq. Theatre, 66th St. Less than a generation ago it was 
the most fashionable theatre in New York, and while still giv- 
ing society plays it no longer holds its prominent position. Oppo- 
site Daly's Theatre is Shanley's Restaurant, and adjoining it is 
the Hofbrauhaus, one of the Broadway show places. 

Just above 30th St. is Wallack Theatre, another of the fash- 
ionable theatres of a decade or two ago. It still gives fashionable 
plays, but, like its neighbor, Daly's Theatre, it is already toofar 
downtown to attract the class of patrons who formerly patronized 
it. On the same block is the Grand Hotel, one of the oldest of 
the good Broadway houses. On the next block, at the southeast 
corner of 32d St., is the Imperial, and on the northeast cor- 
ner is the Martinique, and on the block from 33d to 34th Sts. is 
the new 25-story McALPIN HOTEL, the largest and one of 
the most perfectly equipped hostelries in the world. 



King's Hozv to See New York. 37 

This section of Broadway, from 23d to 59th Sts., is known as 
the "Great White Way," because of the brilliant electrical illu- 
minations at night. Here are some of the most marvelous and 
beautiful electric signs ever built. 

GREELEY SQUARE, the little triangle on the west side of 
the street, from 32d St. to 33d St., contains a bronze statue of 
Horace Greeley. This statue had a tendency to slide off its 
granite base, owing to the vibration of the adjoining elevated 
structure, and to prevent this it was necessary to fasten the statue 
down. In this triangle is the main entrance to the terminal of 
the Hudson Tubes. The block facing Greeley Sq. on the west, 
called Broadway, though really part of Sixth Ave., is Gimbel's, 
the latest of the great department stores. On the block above is 
Saks', and on the block from 34th to 35th St. is MACY'S, one 
of the largest and best-known retail establishments in the world. 
This concern was the first to introduce the department system, 
and it was the first to leave the old shopping district about 14th 
St. and move to this part of the city. Facing Macy's, is HERALD 
SQUARE, with a statue of W. E. Dodge, a famous merchant of 
the cit3\ On the east of the square is the Marbridge Building, a 
20-story building costing, with the ground, nearly $3,000,000. 

The HERALD BUILDING, on the north side of the square, 
was, at the time of its erection, the most elaborate building devoted 
exclusively to a newspaper publication in the country, and archi- 
tecturally is one of the notable buildings in the city. It presents 
two interesting sights, a view of the press room through immense 
plate-glass windows on the Broadway side, and the mechanical 
bronze 'figures striking the bronze bell over the front entrance 
every hour. The smaller presses on which the Telegram is printed 
can be seen working during the day, but the largest presses are 
not started until about midnight. The northwest corner of Broad- 
way and 36th St. has been an amusement resort since 1876 and is 
now occupied by the Herald Sq. Theatre, now a motion-picture 
house. The block from 36th to 37th St. is occupied by the Marl- 
borough-Blenheim Hotel. Two blocks of one-story buildings 
follow on the west side. 

At No. 1368 is the news store' of Harry J. Schultz, where 
visitors may find their home papers. The latest papers from all 
principal American cities are always on sale here, and also daily 
and weekly papers from abroad. In addition to the papers there 
is a complete stock of souvenirs, post cards and novelties. 

At the corner of 38th St. is the Knickerbocker Theatre, one of 
the largest in the city, and adjoining it, at the 39th St. corner, is 
the CASINO, the home of li:?ht opera and musical comedies. 



38 King's How to See New York. 

The west side of Broadway, from 39th to 40th St., is occupied 
by the METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE. This immense 
structure, occup^ang the whole block and seating 3,366 persons, 
was opened in Oct., 1883. The auditorium contains 122 boxes, 
either owned by stockholders or rented by the season. The regu- 
lar prices for seats range from $1 in the gallery to $6 in the 
orchestra. 

Opposite the ^Metropolitan Opera House are several large 
restaurants, including the Kaiserhof, Lorber's and Browne's Chop 
House, and at the 40th St. corner is the Empire Theatre, where 
John Drew and Maude Adams usually appear. At the 41st St. cor- 
ner is the Broadway Theatre, now a motion-picture house. On 
the west side of the block, at 41st St., is the Commercial Trust 
Co., and between 41st and 42d Sts. is the Cafe de Paris, one of the 
largest of the show restaurants. A former owner tried the experi- 
ment of enforcing the rule that only evening dress be worn in the 
main dining-room in the evening, but was unsuccessful, and 
the rule is not enforced at present. The adjoining Heidelberg 
Building, on the 42d St. corner, is another unsuccessful experi- 
ment. The ugly square tower, rising 410 feet above the street, was 
intended for advertising purposes, but the high buildings around 
it shut off the view of the tower and made it useless for the pur- 
pose intended. 

On the southeast corner of 42d St. is the Knickerbocker Hotel, 
one of the fashionable hotels erected by the late Col. John Jacob 
Astor at a cost of $4,500,000. The west side of the block, from 
42d to 43d St., is occupied by the TIMES BUILDING. This 
magnificent 28-story building, rising nearly 450 feet from the low- 
est basement to the top of the observatory rail, occupies one of 
the most prominent sites in the city, and its massive tower is the 
most prominent structure north of the Metropolitan Tower. Its 
erection involved extraordinary engineering difficulties. The sub- 
way structure passes through the basement, cutting out a large 
portion of the building below the street level. 

On the east side of the block is the new Longacre Building, and 
adjoining it is Geo. M. Cohan's Theatre and office building on the 
43d St. corner. Times Sq., from 43d to 47th St., is the center of 
the theatrical and hotel district. The Putnam Building, from 43d 
to 44th St., contains Shanley's famous restaurant and the 
offices of many theatrical concerns. On the southeast corner of 
44th St. is the 20-story hotel built by Rector, now called Claridge. 
The west side of Times Sq., from 44th to 45th St., is occupied bv 
the HOTEL ASTOR. built bv William Waldorf Astor at a cost 
of $5,000,000. Opposite the Hotel Astor is a single ornate struc- 



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Hotel CI; 



Times Bklg. Hotel Astor 

TIMES SQUARE. 



Globe Theatra 



ture, housin.o- the Criterion Theatre, at the 44th St. corner, the 
New York Theatre at the 45th St. corner, and the New York 
Roof Garden. The buildino- was opened by Oscar Hammerstein 
in 1895 as the Olympia, a theatre and roof garden, but it was a 
failure from the start. On the block from 45th to 46th St. are 
the Astor and Gaiety Theatres. Between 46th and 47th St., on the 
east, is the new Palace Tlieatre, and the Columbia, a burlesque 
house, on the corner of 47th St., numbered on Seventh Ave. On the 
west is the Globe Theatre, and on the corner of 47th St. is the 
Strand Theatre, with a seatin.sf capacity of 3,300. At 48th St. is 
Rector's new restaurant and at 49th St. Churchill's, both show 
places. At 50th St. is the Winter Garden. At 54th St. is the 
Hotel Cumberland and on the next block the Hotel Woodward. 
On the northeast corner of 56th St. is the Broadway Tabernacle, 
the Congregational church organized in 1840. At 58th St. is the 
20-story building of the U. S. Rubber Company, the tallest build- 
ing north of Times Sq. At 59th St., Columbus Circle is reached, 
described in Chapters 14 and 17. Broadway, from 48th to 70th St., 
is the center of the automobile trade, most of the stores being 
devoted to the exhibition and sale of motor vehicles and their 
accessories. 



Fifth Avenue 



See Fifth Ave. 
from a 'Bus. 

THIS famous thoroughfare has undergone a complete change 
in less than two decades, and what was once the fashionable 
residential section is now almost completely given over to busi- 
ness. There are still a few residential buildings below 42d St., 
but most, except those south of 12th St., have been transformed 
into, or replaced by, business buildings which are now invading 
even the once ultra-fashionable section between 42d and 59th Sts. 
The section north of 110th St. has become a tenement district, and 
tenements fill the side streets north of 96th St. almost to Fifth 
Ave. This restricts the fashionable residential section to the part 
facing Central Park from 58th to 96th St. The recent enforce- 
ment of the law against street encroachments compelled many 
house-owners to remove stairways, hedges, walls, gardens, etc., 
■which extended beyond the house lines, necessitating new en- 
trances to the buildings 
and giving an odd ap- 
pearance to many house 
fronts, especially notice- 
able in the case of some 
of the churches. 

Fifth Ave. begins at 
Washington Sq. On the 
south side of the square 
is the Judson Memorial 
Baptist Oiurch, with a 
terra - cotta campanile 
tower. The north side 
contains a number of old- 
fashioned houses which 
were fashionable resi- 
dences 40 years ago. 
Most of them are still 
occupied by members of 
notable New York fami- 
lies. On the east side is 
the NEW YORK UNI- 
VERSITY BUILDING, 
The upper floors are used 




WASHINGTON ARCH. 



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King's Hoiv to See New York. 41 

by some departments of the New York University, while the 
lower floors are occupied by the American Book Company, and 
on the west is the Holley, a quiet, refined hotel. 

WASHINGTON ARCH, in the center, was erected between 
1890 and 1892 by public subscription in commemoration of the 
centennial of Washington's inauguration. It is of white marble, 
77 ft. high, with a span of 30 ft., and cost $128,000. It was de- 
signed by Stanford White. Just above Wayerly PI. is W^ashing- 
ton Mews, a narrow, private street occupied by the stables once 
belonging to the houses fronting on Washington Sq. and 8th St. 
The marble front building, comer 8th St., was the residence of 
the late John Taylor Johnson. On the northeast corner is the 
Brevoort-Lafayette Hotel, once an ultra-fashionable hotel, now 
patronized mainly by foreigners. At the southeast corner of 9th 
St. is the former residence of Mark Twain, and on the northeast 
corner is that of General Daniel Sickles. At 10th St. is the 
Grosvenor Hotel, and opposite it the Episcopal Church of the 
Ascension. The block from 11th to 12th St. is occupied by the 
First Presbyterian Church, organized in 1716. From this point 
northward to 42d St. the entire aspect of the street has changed 
in less than a decade, not a single residence remaining from 14th 
to 23d St. At 12th St. is an 18-story loft building, at 15th St. the 
Kensington Building, and at 19th St. the Arnold Constable Dry 
Goods Store, which fronts on Broadway. Several other Broad- 
way buildings run through to Fifth Ave. in this section. At 20th 
St. is the Methodist Book Concern, with the Presbyterian Build- 
ing just above. At 22d St. is the Fuller Building, or "Flatiron." 
At 23d St., where Broadway crosses, is the Fifth Ave. Building, 
on the site of the long famous Fifth Ave. Hotel. Opposite is 
Madison Sq. At 25th St. is the Worth Monument, and near 26th 
St. the statue of Admiral Farragut. 

Northward for a mile and a half are scores of retail shops 
which are unsurpassed in the world, but space permits mention 
of only the most notable. A large office and store building is on 
the site of Delmonico's, southwest corner of 26th St., and the 
Croisic, a similar building, is on the northwest corner. Across 
the avenue the entire block is occupied by the Brunswick Build- 
ing, on the site of the once fashionable Brunswick Hotel. The 
27th St. corner of this building is occupied by Brentano's book 
store, one- of the largest and most complete establishments in 
the country. 

On the opposite corner is the Victoria Hotel, which fronts 
on Broadway, and just above is the Second National Bank. 
The large, building on the southeast corner of 29th St. is the 



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Knickerbocker Apartments, while diagonally across the street 
is the MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH, one of the six Col- 
legiate Churches which trace their origin to the First Church, 
organized by the Dutch settlers in 1628. Adjoining it is the Hol- 
land House, one of the quiet, fashionable hotels, while across the 
street is the Calumet Club. On the northwest corner of 32d St. 
is the Knickerbocker Club, another exclusive organization, with 
a long waiting list. The west side of the block, from 33d to 34th 
St., is occupied by the famous WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL, 




FIFTH AVE. North irom 33d St. 

of which the 33d St. portion, built by William Waldorf Astor. 
was opened in 1893. the 34th St. and larger part being built bv 
Col. John Jacob Astor at a later period. The combined building 
is one of the finest and most costly hotels in the world and con- 
tains 1,400 rooms. 

The magnificent marble building occupying the entire east side 
of the block from 34th to 35th St. is Altman's fine department 
store, while on the west side is the Columbia-Knickerbocker 
Trust Company at 34th St. On the corner of 3r)th St. is Best & 



King's Hoiv to See New York. 43 

Company's store, which specializes in garments for children. 
Almost adjoining is Gorham's magnificent silver and jewelry 
store. On the east side is Gunthers fur establishment, and ad- 
joining it Tiffany's famous jewelry house. Diagonally opposite is 
the Brick Presbyterian Church. Just behind this, on W. 37th St., 
at No. 11, is the 37th St. Tea Room. On the northwest corner 
of 38th St. is the new Lord & Taylor department store. The 
northeast corner is the Union League Club, the first of the 
clubs of similar name established during the Civil War to aid 
the Union. The brownstone house on the southeast corner of 
40th St. is the home of Frederick W. Vanderbilt. 

From 40th to 42d St. is the central building of the NEW 
YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, on the site of the original Croton 
Reservoir. The New York Public Library was formed by the 
consolidation in May, 1895, of the Astor Library (founded in 
1849), the Lenox Library (founded in 1870), and the Tilden Trust 
(the private library of Samuel Jones Tilden and an endowment 
fund of about $2,000,000). At that time the consolidation libra- 
ries had 350,000 volumes and an endowment of $3,500,000. 

The present building was erected by the city and was opened 
May 23, 1911. It is 390 ft. long, 270 ft. deep, with 2 inner courts, 
each about 80 ft. square. Seating capacity in the main reading- 
room for 768 readers ; in the special rooms for 1,000 more. In 
the main stack room are about 63 miles of shelving, with storage 
capacity for about 2,500,000 volumes. Book stacks in the special 
reading-rooms have capacity for about 500,000 more. The refer- 
ence collection now coutains about 900,000 volumes and 300,000 
pamphlets. The Library is open everv week day (including holi- 
days) from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. ; on Sundays from 1 to 10 P. M. 
The picture galleries on the top floor close at 6 P. M. 

Besides the central building, the Library has 42 branch build- 
ings for circulation in the boroughs of Alanhattan, the Bronx and 
Richmond. Most of them were erected from funds given in 1901 
by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. They are maintained by the city of 
New York, and contain about 950,000 volumes, with a yearly cir- 
culation of over 8,000,000. The Library, central building and 
branches, is used by more people than any similar institution. 

At 43d St. is the Jewish Temple Emanu-El, the richest re- 
formed congregation in America. The building, following the 
Moorish style of architecture, has sufifered in appearance through 
the change in the entrance. At the southwest corner of 44th St 
is Sherry's Restaurant and Hotel, and at the northeast corner is 
his more famous rival, Delmonico. On the southeast corner is 
the Harriman National Bank, and opposite it the Fifth Ave. Bank, 



King's Hoiv to See Nezv York. 45 

one of the richest in the country, its $100 shares selling for over 
$4,300 each. Just above the corner of 45th St. is the Church of 
the Heavenly Rest ; the change in the entrance has altered the 
pleasing appearance of the building. The block from 46th to 47th 
St., on the east side, was occupied by the Windsor Hotel, which 
burned down in 1899, with a loss of 50 persons. The Windsor 
Arcade was erected on its site, and the 47th St. part was recently 
removed to make way for the building of W. & J. Sloane. On 
the northeast corner of 47th St. is the residence of Mrs. F. J. 
Shepard (Miss Helen Gould). On the northwest corner of 48th 
St. is the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas. Mrs. 
Russell Sage lives on the same block, at No. 604, and Mrs. Ogden 
Goelet at No. 608. On the east side, from 49th to 50th St., is the 
Belgravia, a fashionable apartment house, the Democratic Club, 
and Buckingham Hotel, an old, fashionable hotel. 

ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL is on the block from 50th to 
51st St. The building is of white marble in the decorated Gothic 
style and is considered to be the most beautiful church edifice in 
America. It is 332 ft. long, 174 ft. wide, the central gable is 156 
ft. high and the spires are 330 ft. high. The seating capacity of 
the pews is 2,500. The corner stone was laid in 1858 and the 
church was dedicated in 1879 by Cardinal McCloskey, who later 
presented to the church the high altar, under which he is buried. 
This altar is of Italian marble, inlaid with semi-precious stones. 
The front is divided into panels presenting bas reliefs of the 
Agony, the Carrying of the Cross and the Last Supper. The 
carved altar screen of Portiers stone is 33 ft. long and 50 ft. high. 
Seventy stained-glass windows illuminate the interior. Over half 
are memorial windows representing Biblical subjects. 

On the next corner is the Union Club, the oldest of the fash- 
ionable social clubs, and at No. 647 is the residence of Robert 
Goelet. On the opposite side of the block are the Vanderbilt twin 
residences, brownstone buildings connected by an entrance struc- 
ture, which were for years the largest and most costly dwelling- 
houses in New York. Henry C. Frick lives in the southerly one, 
pending the completion of his new home. On the next corner is 
the residence of W. K. Vanderbilt. with that of W. K. Vanderbilt, 
Jr., next. The adjo-ining beautiful residence of Frederick_ Gallatin 
was recently demolished to make room for a loft building. On 
the 53d St. corner is the new ST. THOMAS P. E. CHURCH. 
The old building w^as destroyed by fire several years ago. When 
the funds for the new building were about ready to start the work 
the earthquake in San Francisco occurred, and the congregation 
voted to send all the money to help the sufferers there, so the 




40 



ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. 
Fifth Ave., 50th to 51st St., to Madison Ave. 



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new building was only completed in 1913. Above the church live 
two more members of the Vanderbilt family, W. Seward Webb at 
No. 680, and H. McK. Twombly at No. 684. Just off the avenue, 
at 4 W. 54th St., 
is the home of 
John D. Rocke- 
feller. His broth- 
er, William, oc- 
cupies the brick 
building on the 
southeast corner. 
No. 689. The 
granite building 
on the northwest 
corner bearing a 
number of college 
shields on the 
front and side is 
the University 
Club. The Goth- 
am, at the south- 
west corner of 
55th St., and the 
St. Regis, at the 
southeast corner, 
are ultra-fashion- 
able hotels. On 
the northwest 
corner is the 
Fifth Ave. Pres- 
byterian Church, 
and on the 56th 
St. corner is the 
former residence 
of Edwin Gould. 
A great office 
building is on the 
site of the Whitney Mansion, southwest corner of 57th St. On 
the opposite side, extending to 58th St., is the magnificent resi- 
dence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, for size and grandeur one of 
the most notable on the avenue. The marble building on the 
northeast corner is the residence of Mrs. Herman Oelrichs. Will- 
iam E. Iselin lives on the same block, at No. 745. The stately 
h.omes which line the avenue and the side streets in this part of 




S1IEU^[AX STATTE. 




Metropolitan West St, Woolworth Singer Municipal Whitehall Equitable Aquai 

SKYSCRAPERS OF LOWER MANHATTAN. Enormous steel fireproof build i 
from oOO to 78G ft. hiuii, three over 400 ft., a score over 800 ft. Here are the head' 
4H 





f 



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Custom House Bridges Battery Barge Oltice South Ferry 

worth two billion dollars, most of them built within a dozen years. Six are 
ere or agencies of businesses aggregating over $400,000,000,000 of investments. 



50 King's Hozv to Sec New York. 

the city are fast disappearing, the former owners taking up new 
residences in other neighborhoods, or else adopting the more 
modern mode of living in fashionable hotels or apartment houses. 

The Plaza, from 58th to 59th St., is dominated by the new 
18-story Plaza Hotel, an ultra-fashionable ' house having accom- 
modations for families who make this their permanent residence 
as well as for transient guests. Upon application at the office a 
page will show visitors the features of the building, including the 
wonderful kitchen. On the east side of the square are the Savoy, 
on the south corner, and the Hotel Netherland, on the north cor- 
ner of 59th St. The Plaza has the gilt bronze equestrian statue 
of General W. T. Sherman at the Scholars' Gate to Central Park. 
The building of the Union Trust Company, at 60th St., is at 
present the last of the commercial buildings, and northward, as far 
as 92d St., there is a succession of residential mansions. At 60th St. 
is the Metropolitan Club, called the "Millionaires' Club.'' The Gerry 
Mansion is at 61st St., the residence of W. E. Roosevelt at No. 804, 
W. L. Bull at No. 805. Hamilton Fish at No. 810, Mrs. J. P. Ker- 
nochan at No. 824, Clifford V. Brokav^ at No. 825, W. Guggen- 
heim at No. 833, W. Watts Sherman at No. 838. The large dou- 
ble house at 65th St. was the residence of the late John Jacob 
Astor, who lost his life on the "Titanic." At the north corner of 
66th St. is the residence of Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer. O. H. 
Payne lives at No. 852, Elbert H. Gary at No. 856, Geo. J. Gould 
at No. 857, corner of 67th St. At No. 858 is the residence of 
Thomas F. Ryan, and at the 68th St. corner was the Yerkes' 
Mansion and art gallery, the latter willed to the city but lost 
through legal technicalities. On the north corner is the famous 
Whitney house, one of the most costly in its interior decorations 
in America. It is now occupied by H. P. Whitney. At No. 874 is 
the residence of Mrs. Joseph Stickney. On the corner of 69th St. 
is the Ogden Mills residence, and at No. 883 that of John Sloane. 
On the block from 70th to 71st St., H. C. Frick is erecting one of 
the largest residences in the city, which will cost when com- 
pleted about $3,000,000. This was the site of Lenox Library, 
now part of the N. Y. Public Library. On the opposite side of 
the avenue, in a recess of the park wall, is the Richard Hunt 
^Memorial, a bronze bust by the sculptor D. E. French. 

Corner of 72d St. is the Burden house. At No. 923 is the resi- 
dence of Mrs. Randolph Guggenheimer. The brownstone house, 
corner 74th St., was begun in 1875 by William Pickhardt, an 
eccentric German millionaire. He repeatedly changed the plans, 
and when completed in 1889 he was dissatisfied with it and 
would not occupy it. In 1895 he put it up- at auction, and the 



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house upon which he had spent over $1,000,000 brought $472,500. 
It was first occupied by the new owner in 1896, over 20 years 
after it was begun. At No. 932 is the residence of Mortimer L. 
Schifif. Edwin Gould Hves at No. 936. At 76th St. is the Tem- 
ple BETH-EL, its great gilt-ribbed done being a prominent land- 
mark. At 77th St. is Senator W. A. Clark's Mansion, one of the 
most costly and elaborate residences on the avenue. At No. 963 
C. F. Dietrich lives, at No. 964 Geo. H. Butler, at No. 965 Jacob H. 
Schiff. On the north corner of 78th St. is the new home of James 
B. Duke. At No. 972 Payne Whitney lives, and the marble build- 
ing at the north corner of 79th St. is the residence of Howard C. 
Brokaw. E. W. Woolworth lives at No. 990. At No. 998 is a 
m a gn i f i cent 
ap artment 
house where 
suites rent for 
such sums that 
it has been pop- 
ularly called the 
"Millionaires' 
Apa rtments." 
At present Levi 
P. Morton, Elihu 
Root and M. 
Guggenheim are 
among those 
making their 
home here. 

On the west 
side of the ave- 
nue, opposite 82d 
St.. is the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art, described in Chapter 16. Anthony Drexel, 
Jr., Hves at No. 1015, William Saloman at No. 1020. On the 
southeast corner of 86th St. is the new home of Wm. Starr Mil- 
ler, on the same corner of 87th St. that of James Speyer, while 
opposite is Henry Phipps' residence and J. Gould's at No. 1082. 
The block from 90th to 91st St. is occupied by the residence 
of Andrew Carnegie, a million dollar building, surrounded by 
a garden. Jacob Ruppert lives at No. 1116, corner 93d St. 
The block from 100th to 101st St. is occupied by Mount Sinai 
Hospital, one of the largest and best-equipped hospital build- 
ings in the world. The remainder of the avenue holds little 
of interest. 




ANDREW CARNEGIE'S RESIDENCE. 



Battery and Bo^vlmg Green 

ROUTE. Boivling Green Subway Station to Whitehall St., to 
South Ferry, along, the Sea Wall to Pier i, North River, to 
Battery PI, and back to Station. 

BOWLING GREEN is the little park at the foot of Broadway. 
On the south is the immense new Custom House, on the east 
is the red brick Produce Exchange and on the west are the 
buildings described under Broadway from Battery PI. to Morris 
St. The park, which covers half an acre, has been a public 
ground since the founding of the city, first as a market-place, 
then as a parade-ground, later as a pleasure-ground for playing 
bowls, whence its name. In the center stood a leaden gilt statue 
of George the Third, erected in 1770 and torn down by the mob 
upon hearing of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 
on July 9, 1776. It was sent to Litchfield, Conn., where it was 
converted into 42,000 bullets for the patriots' use. Iron crowns 
and balls, surmounting the pickets of the fence around the green, 
were used as ammunition. The park contains a statue, facing the 
Custom^ House, of Abraham de Peyster, one of the early Dutch 
officials, and a fountain. 

The CUSTOM HOUSE is one of the most beautiful public 
buildings in the city. It was erected in 1901-07 of Maine granite, 
seven stories high, at a cost, with equipment, of about $7,000,000.^ 
The four marble groups on pedestals at the Bowling Green 
entrances to the building represent four continents. They are 
allegorical, each significant of the development and achievements 
of the race of the respective continent. The twelve statues on 
the fagade represent the most important commercial nations in 
the world's history — Greece, Rome, Phoenicia, Genoa, Venice, 
Spain, Holland, Portugal, Denmark, Germany, France and Eng- 
land. Genoa is represented by Columbus, Venice by the Doge 
Tvlariano Falieri, Spain by Queen Isabella, Holland by Admiral 
Van Tromp and Portugal by Prince Henry the Navigator. The 
others are represented by emblematic figures. There is a mass 
of minor decorations suggestive of the world of trade and trans- 
portation. The Collector of Customs, Naval officers. Surveyor, 
the Steamboat Inspection Service Bureau, U. S. Internal Revenue 
Office, National Bank Examiner, U. S. Civil Service Board, the 
Inspector of Animals for Export, the Secret Service Division of 
the Treasury Department, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and 
U. S. Revenue Cutter Service have offices in the Custom House. 



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U. S. CUSTOM HOUSE. Bowliuj,^ Green, Wliiteliall to State St. 

The building stands on the site of the Dutch Fort Amsterdam 
ard the English Fort George. After the Revolution the Govern- 
ment house was erected on this site and it remained until 1815, 
being replaced by residences later converted into steamship ofifices. 
The PRODUCE EXCHANGE building occupies the block on 
Whitehall St. from Beaver to Stone St. This building was at 
the time of its erection, 1884, the most notable building in this 
part of the city. It is 300 ft. long, 150 ft. wide, 116 ft. high, 
with a campanile rising 225 ft. above the street, and has a 
floor space of about 7^2 acres. It stands upon 15,000 spruce piles 
driven down to bed rock, the present concrete caisson foundations 
not being used at the time of its erection. The cost of ground 
and building was nearly 3^4 miUion dollars. This immense struc- 
ture has nearly 2,000 windows and 1,000 doors, 9 elevators carry- 
ing over 25,000 passengers daily. The Produce Exchange was 
organized in 1868 and has a membership limited to 3,000. Its 
transactions, covering over a thousand million dollars a year, 
include the wholesale buying and selling of grain, flour, provi- 
sions, lard, seeds, butter, eggs, cheese, hay, straw, hops, naval 
stores, petroleum, etc. Some of these commodities are also dealt 
in on other exchanges. 



King's Hozc to 3ee Neiv York. 55 

At Water St. is the red brick ARMY BUILDING, containing 
headquarters of the quartermaster and commissary departments, 
Supervisor of the Harbor, Harbor Line Board and other offices 
connected with or under the supervision of the Army. 

At the foot of Whitehall St. is South Ferry, where are a 
number of lines to Brooklyn and Staten Island, also Government 
boats to Governor's Island and Ellis Island, and overhead is the 
terminus of all the elevated lines. 

Adjoining South Ferry is the low structure used as an Em- 
ployment Bureau for Immigrants, next to which is the new Barge 




Office. The old building, which was intended as a landing-place 
for cabin passengers, became the receiving station for steerage 
passengers and later was used by customs officials. It is now a 
landing-place for immigrants who are brought from Ellis Island, 
the new immigrant depot. The dock adjoining is the landing- 
place for the small steamboats used by revenue officers to board 
incoming vessels, and alongside this dock is the ferry to Gover- 
nor's Island. 

BATTERY PARK, or the "Battery," as it is usually called, 
was originally a sandy beach about on a line with the elevated 
railway structure. The English had a battery on what is now 
State St., and Governor Leisler, in 1692, ordered the beach beyond 
the battery to be a public thoroughfare and promenade. Across 
the park may be seen on State St. a few old buildings which, at 
the time of their erection at the beginning of the 19th century, 
were fashionable residences. The building at No. 8, now occu- 
pied by a mission, presents an odd curved front. Large office 
buildings, like the Cheesborough and the Battery Park, will prob- 
ably soon fill this street. A rock, on which a fort, now the Aqua- 
rium, was built, was then 300 ft. off shore, but the intervening 
space has since been filled in to complete the park, which now 
covers an area of 21 acres. The park contains statues of John 



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Ericsson, the builder of the 
jMonitor, of Civil War fame, 
and of Verazzani, who, the 
Italians claim, was the first 
navigator to enter New York 
harbor. The flagstaff near the 
Barge OfRce was the steel mast 
of the cup defender Constitu- 
tion. If time permits, brief vis- 
its can be made to Governor's 
Island, Liberty Island and Ellis 
Island. 

GOVERNOR'S ISLAND, 
the headquarters of the military- 
Department of the East, is lit- 
tle over half a mile from the 
Battery. Besides officers' bar- 
racks, etc., it contains the an- 
tiquated Fort Columbus, the 
circular structure erected in 
183], called Castle Williams, 
now used as a military prison 
and a landing-place and hang- 
ars for aerial craft. The ]\Iili- 
tary Service Institution in one 
of the buildings on the island 
has a collection of war relics. 
Admission to Governor's Island 
is by pass, obtainable by writ- 
ing to the post adjutant. Gov- 
ernment Ferry, near South 
Ferry. 

LIBERTY ISLAND, upon 
which, Bartholdi's Statue of Lib- 
erty stands, is about two miles 
from the Battery, reached by 
ferry from the Batterv landing. 
The Statue of Liberty is 151 ft. 
high, standing upon a .granite 
and concrete pedestal 155 ft. 
high. The statue consists of 
r.OO sheets of hammered copper 
riveted together over a skele- 
ton of iron, provision being 



STATUE OF ]Ji;i:UTy, 



King's How to See New York. 57 

made for contraction and expansion due to cold and heat, and 
also to prevent corrosion caused by electrical action between the 
copper and iron in the presence of the salty moisture in the air. 
The statue, from the heel to the top of the head, is 111^ ft. 
high. The head, from the chin to the skull, is 17^ ft; width 
from ear to ear, 10 ft. The index finger is 8 ft. long, the right 
arm 42 ft. The lady has a mouth 3 ft. wide, a nose 4^ ft. long 
and she is 35 ft. across the waist. The work on the statue, begun 
in 1879, was completed in 1883 at a cost of over a million 
francs, raised by popular subscription in France. The pedestal, 
completed in 1886, cost $250,000, raised by popular subscription 
in the United States mainly through the efforts of the New 
York World. The statue was unveiled October 28, 1886. Ad- 



ELLIS ISLAND. New York Harbor. 

mission to the head is free. From here may be obtained a fine 
view of the lower harbor, the Narrows, Brooklyn, Staten Island, 
and part of New Jersey. Boats leave Battery Landing every 
hour from 9 to 5 and return from the island on the half hour. 
Fare for the round trip, 25 cts. 

ELLIS ISLAND, near Liberty Island, is the landing-place for 
immigrants, where they are examined as to their eligibility for 
admission to the United States. The immigrants enter a big 
reception-room in the main building, where they are divided into 
groups. These pass before a corps of examining physicians, then 
before the immigrant inspectors, who question each person as to 
his purpose, means, character, etc. Those who fail to pass the 
physicians or inspectors are detained and re-examined by a board. 
If they fail to pass this board, they are detained until the depart- 
ure of the vessel which brought them, or another vessel of the 
same line, and are returned. Those who are sick and need imme- 
diate attention are sent to the hospital on the island. The recep- 
tion and examination and disposition of the immigrants is an 
interesting sight. Visitors are admitted to a balcony overlooking 



58 King's Hozo to See Nezv York. 

the room where they are received. Free ferry from the Battery. 

Walking along the sea wall of Battery Park, from which a 
fine view of the harbor may be had, the ever-changing panorama 
presenting at all hours a fascinating sight, we come to a public 
landing-place used chiefly by excursion boats, then to the city 
free bath. The city has 20 such floating baths and 20 interior 
baths, scattered over the city, besides an immense bathing house 
in Coney Island. Just beyond are the Battery Baths (admission 
fee charged). 

The brown circular building is the AQUARIUM, one of the 
most interesting sights for visitors. Originally Fort Clinton, 
erected in 1805 to 1807, on what was then an island, it was deeded 
to the city in 1822 and became an amusement resort called Castle 
Garden. Here General Lafayette was received, Prof. Morse 
demonstrated and Jenny Lind made her debut. It was leased to 
the Federal Government in 1854, and from 1855 to 1890 it was the 
immigrant landing-place. It was restored to the city in 1891, and 
in 1896 it was converted into an aquarium, showing over 200 kinds 
of sea creatures, totaling some 3,000 living specimens. In the 
large tanks in the center of the floor are seals, sea lions and 
other large specimens of sea life. In the wall tanks are fresh 
and salt water fishes, many of great beauty. In the gallery 
are many examples of fixed sea life, including corals, mol- 
lusks, crustaceans, etc. It is open daily from 10 A. ]\I. to 4 P. M. 
and is free to the public. Just to the west of the Aquarium is 
a fire station, with one of the city's fire boats, and adjoining the 
fire-boat landing is a stone landing-dock for small boats. Adjoin- 
ing this is the covered pier used by the Department of Docks and 
Ferries and by the Police Department for berthing its steamboat 
Patrol. On the second floor are the offices of the Dock Commis- 
sioner and the Department of Docks and Ferries, which has 
charge of all water-front property and operates the three lines 
of municipal ferries. A number of launches in the stone landing- 
dock are used by the police for patrolling the water front. 

BATTERY PLACE. The street to the north of Battery Park, 
west of Broadway, has two notable structures, the Whitehall 
Building on the corner of West St., and the Washington Building, 
described as No. 1 Broadway. The front of the former is of buff 
and terra-cotta brick, is 254 feet high and contains 20 stories. An 
addition erected in the rear contains 31 stories, is 416 feet high 
and has, with the original structure, nearly 13^ acres floor space. 
Just north of Battery PI., on Washington St., is the Syrian quar- 
ter, one of the strange foreign sections of the city. At Xo. 46 
Washington St. is the Syrian Church. 



Bo\?i^ling Green to W^all Street 

ROUTE. Siibzcav to JVall St., to Fearl St., to Beaver St., to 
JVilliayii St. (to Hanover Sq.), to Old Slip, to South St., to 
Broad St., to Exchange PL, to Broadzvay, to Subzvay. This 
trip takes us through part of the financial and shipping districts. 
^^ALL ST. was originally the site of a wall erected in 1652 to 
vv enclose the little town which lay to the south, and guard it 
against attack by Indians and English. The wall was demolished 
m 1699 and this thoroughfare was left. It was a fashionable resi- 
dence street at the beginning of the 19th century, but financial 
institutions were in the neighborhood before the Revolution. As 
the leaders of fashion gradually moved further uptown, their 
residences were taken up by business and financial concerns, and 
the street, which is less than half a mile long, is now the financial 
center of the continent and is filled with great office and Govern- 
ment buildings, including some of the most notable structures in 
New York. Only the most important or most interesting will be 
mentioned. No. 1, at the south corner of Broadway, is an 18-story 
building on a plot 29 ft. 10 in. by 39 ft. 10 in., until 1910 the most 
expensive plot in New York, costing $598.21 per square foot. 
Opposite is the United Bank Building. Between New and Broad 
Sts. is the Wall St. entrance to the STOCK EXCHANGE, the 
main entrance and fagade being on Broad St. It is a $3,000,000 
marble structure, occupied ^lay, 1903, with a frontage of 138 ft. 
on Broad St. and 152 ft. 9 in. on New St. It is a 10-story building, 
five stories of which are recessed behind six Corinthian columns 
52 ft. 6 in. high, which uphold a richly sculptured pediment. The 
central figure represents Integrity. The group on the right of 
the central figure represents agriculture and mining ; that on the 
left represents motive power, scientific and mechanical appliances. 
The organization is a non-incorporated body of 1,100 members, 
formed in 1792. Membership or a seat in the Exchange has a 
fluctuating value ranging since 1901 between $41,000 and $95,000. 
In 1913 sales amounted to 83,283,582 shares of stock, worth 
$5,921,462,680, and $501,155,920 bonds. The record day in stocks 
was April 30, 1901, when 3,190,857 shares were traded in, and in 
bonds, Nov. 11, 1904, when sales amounted to $15,085,500. 

At the northwest corner of Nassau and Wall Sts. is the 39-5tory 
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY BUILDING. 539 ft. high, being 
the fourth in height of the city's skyscrapers. In 1897, the 20-story 
Gillender Building was erected on this site, but in less than 15 

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61 



years it has become so antiquated in comparison with more mod- 
ern structures that it was demolished to make room for this 
magnificent building. 

On the opposite corner is the classical U. S. SUB-TREx\S- 
URY BUILDING. It was erected for the Custom House, but 
proved inadequate for that purpose and was converted into a 
branch of the U. S. Treasury, with immense vaults and store 
rooms for the storage of coin. It has held at one time over $225,- 
000,000 in gold and silver. The granite walls are from 3 to 5 ft. 




UNITED STATES SITS-THEASURY AND ASSAY OFFICE. 



thick, the windows are iron barred and have steel shutters perfor- 
ated for rifles. The doors and ceilings over the porches are likewise 
perforated, and on the roof are three steel bullet-proof turrets, each 
containing a gatling-gun, rifles and hand grenades. It is said that 
100 men with the arms with which the building is supplied could 
hold it against any possible attack except artillery. The building 
stands upon the site of the English City Hall and Government 
building. This was really the Capitol of the province. After the 
Revolution it became the U. S. Capitol, and here Washington took 
the oath of office as President on April 30, 1789. The brown-stone 
slab upon which he stood was placed in front of the statue which 
stands in front of the building until relic hunters began to 
chip it to pieces. It is now on the interior wall of the build- 
ing at the Wall St. end. Several memorial tablets are im- 
bedded in the walls of the building. Visitors may pass through the 



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Bankers Trust Liberty Tower 




Exchange PJ. Curb Market 
BROAD ST. 



to See Nezv York. 

hall between 10 and 3, but are 
not admitted to the vaults. 

Adjoining the Sub-Treasury is 
the U. S. ASSAY OFFICE. This 
is the oldest building on Wall St., 
having been erected in 1823 as a 
branch of the Bank of the United 
States. Every operation that is car- 
ried on in the ^lint, except the 
actual stamping out of the coin 
from the bullion, is carried on here. 
The crude bullion is received here 
and taken to a 6-story building in 
the rear, where it is assayed, re- 
fined and melted into bars, the gold 
ones weighing from 200 to 300 
ounces, the silver ones weighing 
200 ounces. These are then re- 
turned to the main building, where 
they are stored in steel safes. The 
Assay Office is open from 10 A. M. 
to 3 P. M. On application on the 
second floor, visitors will be shown 
the interesting departments. 

On the east corner of Broad St. 
is being erected a building for J. P. 
Morgan & Co. Adjoining is the 
Wall. St. wing of the Mills Build- 
ing, the main front being on Broad 
St. At Nos. 40 and 42 are two 
great bank buildings, owned by the 
Bank of the Alanhattan Company, 
Merchants' National Bank and the 
Bank of America. Opposite them, at 
No. 37, is the Equitable Trust Com- 
pany, at No. 43 is the U. S. Trust 
Company, and at No. 49 is the At- 
lantic Building. On the next block, 
from William to Hanover St., is 
the NATIONAL CITY BANK, 
the richest national bank in Amer- 
ica ; with a capital of $25,000,000, 
it has a surplus of nearly $30,000,- 
000 and $240,000,000 deposits. The 



King's Hozv to See Nezv York. 63 

building itself, erected in 1836, was originally the Merchants Ex- 
change, then the Custom House, and was bought from the United 
States Government for $3,365,000. On the northeast corner of 
William St. is the old building of the Bank of New York, the old- 
est bank in the city. The original corner-stone states it was laid 
June 22, 1797. On the same block are the buildings of the Central 
Trust Company, at No. 54, the great office building at No. 60, and 
the Seaman's Bank, corner Pearl St. On the block below is the 
Tontine Building, on the site of the Tontine Coffee House, one of 
the most famous of the early meeting-places of merchants. The 
meal market and slave market stood in this part of the street be- 
fore the Revolution. Going south on Pearl St., a few steps bring 
us to the foot of Beaver St. Going up two blocks to William St., 
we are again in the midst of immense skyscrapers. The yellow 
brick building running to Hanover Sq. is the Cotton Exchange. 
The wedge-shaped building at S. William St. has on its ground 
floor Delmonico's Restaurant. Two marble pillars at the doorway 
were brought from Pompeii, where they were found among the 
ruins. The Corn Exchange Bank and the Farmers' Loan and 
Trust Company Building occupy other corners. 

The southeast corner of Hanover Sq., which is just to the east, 
is occupied by the large new building of the shipping firm of R. 
Grace & Co. Going east on Old Slip, the short street running to 
the East River, on the block from Water to Front St., is a fire 
engine company, and on the next block a police station, one of 
the finest in the city. At the river is South St. Turning south 
one block is the new Seaman's Institute, on which is the Titanic 
Memorial Lighthouse, with a time ball. The East River front, 
from Old Slip to Broad St., was, in the days of clipper ships, the 
most interesting and busy strip of water front around New York. 
With their disappearance it has become commonplace. 

JExA-NETTE PARK, in Coenties Slip, was named in honor 
of the vessel fitted out by the New York Herald for Lt. DeLong 
for Arctic exploration. The vessel, with its commander, was lost 
in the Arctic in 1881. The site of the park was formerly an 
indentation extending nearly to the elevated structure and used 
as the landing-place for canal barges. A bronze plate on a build- 
ing, at No. 88 Pearl St., states that it is where the great fire of 
1835 stopped after destroying 650 buildings. 

BROAD ST. was originally a creek through marshes which 
extended almost up to Wall St. The Dutch boarded up the sides 
and later covered it over, forming a wide street. At the south- 
east corner of Broad and Pearl St. is the historical FRAUNCE'S 
TAVERN, where Washington took leave of his officers at the close 



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Fraunce's Tavern. 



of the Revolution. It has been 
restored and presents to-day 
the same appearance as it 
did in Washington's day. It 
was built in 1725 and is sup- 
posed to be the oldest build- 
ing on Manhattan Island. 
The long room on the sec- 
ond floor is now used as a 
restaurant. The building is 
well worth a visit. Nearly 
opposite is the building of 
the Bush Terminal Com- 
pany. A small plot at Stone 
St., 10 by 20, is held by the 
family of the original Dutch 
owner. At No. 84 is the 
Austrian Society's Home, 
and at No. 78 is the Mari- 
interesting model-room. On the 



time Exchange, with an 

southeast corner of Beaver St. is the marble Consolidated Stock 
Exchange ; visitors' entrance on Beaver St. This exchange was 
formed in 1885 by the union of the Mining Stock Exchange and 
five other boards, and deals mainly in oil and mining, with some 
railway and other securities. Opposite is the American Bank Note 
Building on the south and the Morris Building on the north cor- 
ner. A curious feature of the street is the curb market. A part 
of Broad St., just to the northward, is roped off, and in the enclos- 
ure are brokers and brokers' clerks, who have no connection with 
any organized exchange. They will deal in any kind of stock or 
other financial securities for which they can get purchasers, and 
they transmit their orders in pantomimic signs to their offices in 
the surrounding buildings. It is one of the sights of the town 
no visitor should miss. 

The No. 50 Broad St., Johnson, Blair and Commercial Cable 
Buildings are a group of lofty buildings on the west side of the 
street, near Exchange PI., and on the east side are the Broad 
Exchange and the Mills Buildings, all magnificent structures filled 
with offices of financial concerns. Turning west at Exchange PL, 
past New St., the narrow street between Broad St. and Broad- 
way, on which the buildings face the other two thoroughfares, 
Broadway is reached and the subway at Wall St. The large 
building on Rector St., seen across Trinity Churchyard, is the 
U. S. Express Building. 



Wall to Fulton Street 

ROUTE. Subzvay Station at Wall St., Cedar to Nassau, to 
Maiden Lane, to South, to Fulton, to William, to John, to 
Nassau, to Maiden Lane, to Cortlandt, to Church, to Liberty, 
to West, to Fulton, to Subway. 

GOING up Broadway two blocks we reach Cedar St. On Cedar 
St., a few feet east of Broadway, is the NEW YORK 
CLEARING HOUSE, a white marble structure declared to be 
the most beautiful building devoted to finance in the city. The 
upper part is profusely decorated and the whole topped by a sky- 
lighted dome. The ground floor is occupied by the Chase 
National Bank, the upper floors by the Clearing House Associa- 
tion. Here the checks received by the 65 banks and trust compa- 
nies forming the association are collected daily, and by a system 
of exchanges it is found how much each bank must pay or receive 
to clear its account 
with the others. In 
1913 the clearings 
amounted to over 
98,121 million dol- 
lars, a daily average 
of over $323,800,000. 
On Nov. 3, 1909, the 
clearings amounted 
to $736,000,000. The 
average daily bal- 
ances in 1913 were 
$16,970,000, or about 
^Vs per cent, of the 
clearings. 

The work of the 
Clearing House is 
very interesting, but 
visitors are not ad- 
mitted. The most 
interesting feature in 
the building, but not 
shown to visitors, is 
the triple vault, really 
three chrome steel 
safes, in the cellar. 




N. Y. CLEARING HOUSE. 



So Cedar St. 
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The vault rests upon piers of concrete masonry and railroad iron 7 
ft. high, three piers being imbedded in a base of concrete 6 ft. thick. 
The outer walls of the vault consist of steel plates 6 in. thick ; 
each outer door weighs 10 tons, and these, with two inner doors to 
each safe, are fitted with time and combination locks. Around 
the vault, 4 ft. from the walls, is a fence with bars 3 in. thick. 
Other precautions besides watchmen are measures for flooding 
the vault room, or filling it with live steam, for electric signaling 

upon contact with 
any part of the 
walls, for sending a 
high voltage current 
through the fence 
and walls, etc. The 
interior dimensions 
of the vault are : 24 
ft. wide, 20 ft. deep 
and 12 ft. high, hold- 
ing when full 210 
tons of gold. 

Nassau St., the 
narrow thorough- 
fare one block east 
of Broadway, was 
laid out in 1692 and 
was never widened. 
It is now one of the 
busiest streets in the 
city. Its congested 
condition during the 
noon and early eve- 
ning hours, when 
the thousands of 




CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 



Libert.y 



individuals who occupy the lofty buildings during working hours 
fill the street, is used as an irrefutable argument against the 
erection of skyscrapers in narrow thoroughfares. 

The block on Nassau St. betw^een Cedar and Pine Sts. is occu- 
pied bv the building of the Fourth National Bank. On the east 
side of the block, from Cedar to Liberty St., is the MUTUAL 
LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING. It occupies the site of the 
Middle Dutch Reformed Church, first erected in 1729, demolished 
1882 and used for 30 years as the Post Office. Behind the Church, 
on the Liberty St. side, stood the Lispenard Sugar House, used 
as a military prison during the Revolution. A historical tablet is 



King's Hozv to See Nezv York. 67 

affixed to the side of the building. Opposite the Mutual Life is 
the building of the National Bank of Commerce, corner Cedar St., 
and adjoining it is the Postal Life Building. On the northwest 
corner of Liberty and Nassau Sts. is the 31-story Liberty Tower, 
385 feet high. This building is typical of the development of build- 
ings with large office areas erected on small plots. 

Adjoining it on the west is the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 
The present building, costing $1,500,000, was dedicated in 1902 by 
President Roosevelt. The front is embellished with Corinthian 
columns, between which are statues of Alexander Hamilton, 
DeWitt Clinton and John Jay, and groups representing commerce 
are over the entrance and below the cornice. The Chamber of 
Commerce, now numbering 1,600 members, organized in 1768, is 
the oldest commercial organization in the U. S., and deals with 
the greater problems of commerce, the development of the port 
and the welfare of the city generally. We turn east at Maiden 
Lane, which is the site of a brook where Dutch maidens did the 
family washing. It was known in Dutch days as Maagde Paatje, 
translated into English as Maiden Lane. At the northeast corner 
of Maiden Lane and William St. is the building of the Royal 
Insurance Company, and opposite it, on the southeast corner, is 
the large red brick building of the London, Liverpool and Globe 
Insurance Company. This is the center of the insurance district. 

The triangular plot at the junction of Liberty St. and Maiden 
Lane is occupied by the new 20-story building of the German 
American Insurance Company, and opposite this, on the south, is 
the 25-story office building known as No. 80 Maiden Lane. The 
narrow street opening on Maiden Lane directly opposite this sky- 
scraper is Gold St., one of the oldest streets in this vicinity and 
the western border of the hide and leather district. At the foot 
of Maiden Lane are the piers of the Ward Line, and to the north 
as far as Burling Slip are the piers of the United Fruit Steam- 
ship Line, these two lines going to West Indies, Mexico, Central 
and northern South America. At the foot of Fulton St. is Fulton 
Ferry, and adjoining is the wholesale fish market. The fishing 
boats land here in the evening and discharge their cargo, which is 
stored in refrigerators or packed in barrels. In the early morning 
the retail dealers come with their wagons to cart away their wares. 
Those familiar with the famous fish market of London will miss 
here the picturesque costumes and language, the odors and confu- 
sion of Billingsgate. Opposite the fish market is Fulton ^Market 

Fulton St. is the only street south of Houston running from 
river to river. At the corner of William St. is the Royal Building, 
and adjoining it is the Underwriter Building. On the building at 



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the northwest corner of William and John Sts. is a tablet stating 
that this was the site of the Battle of Golden Hill, fought on Jan. 
19, 1770. New York lives in the present and looks forward to 
the future. It shows little reverence for the past and this battle, 
in which the first blood was shed in the Revolution, is an almost 
forgotten incident, hardly mentioned in history. The building 
still standing at 122 William St. was the Golden Hill Tavern, in 
front of which the battle was fought. 

At the corner of John and Dutch St. is the 16-story Hilliard 
Building, and nearly opposite is the famous JOHN ST. METHO- 
DIST CHURCH, the "Cradle of Alethodism" in America. The 
original church was built in 1768. The present building, erected 
in 1841, is owned by the Church at large, its management being in 
the hands of trustees elected by the General Conference of the 
M. E. Church. It contains many relics of the first church, includ- 
ing the clock presented by John Wesley, the founder of the sect. 











HUDSON TERMINAL BUILDINGS. 
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Going back to Maiden Lane, we pass two large buildings filled 
with jewelry manufacturers and dealers. At No. 17 is the Silver- 
smiths' Building, and adjoining it is the Jewelers' Building. A 
tablet on the former building gives a short history of the street. 
This is the center of the jewelry trade, and visitors will be more 
interested in the shop windows than in the size of the buildings. 
Crossing Broadway to Cortlandt St., we go west toward North 
River, passing the Cortlandt St. side of the City Investing 
Building. At the northwest corner of Church St. are the HUD- 
SON TERMINAL BUILDINGS, covering the two blocks from 
Fulton to Cortlandt St., between Greenwich and Church St. Above 
ground they consist of two buildings identical in construction, the 
upper floors joined by bridges which span Dey St. This, the larg- 
est office building in the world, 22 stories high, covers a ground 
space of 70,000 square feet. It has 4,000 offices, with a day popu- 
lation estimated at 10,000. On the lower floor is the terminal 
of the Hudson River Tunnels and an arcade which is a business 
street in itself. Beside the main entrance to the southerly building 
is the map store of C. S. Hammond & Co., where all kinds of 
maps may be had. 

We go south on Church St. to Liberty, then west. On Liberty 
St., east of Church St., is the building of the Fidelity and Casualty 
Company. At West St. is the Central Building, and one block south, 
at the corner of Cedar and West St., is the 23-story West St. 
Building. This is the highest building along the water front north 
of the Whitehall Building, at the Battery, and a conspicuous land- 
mark from the river. On the water front are the ferries of the 
Central R. R. of N. J. and West Shore R. R. at Liberty St., 
Pennsylvania R. R. at Cortlandt St., Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western R. R. north of Cortlandt St. and the Fall River Line at 
Fulton St. Here WASHINGTON MARKET is reached. This 
was, a generation ago, the great depot and distributing center for 
meat and produce, and while the vicinity still holds many whole- 
sale produce houses, the business done in the market building 
itself is mainly retail. The wholesale meat market was moved to 
the West Washington Market, at the foot of W. 12th St., and in 
front of it is the market wagon stand, leaving Washington Mar- 
ket a small retail market for transient customers. Washington 
Market and Fulton Market are the last of the score or more 
meat and produce markets that were scattered along the water 
front a generation ago. 

On Fulton St. is St. Christopher's Chapel and dispensary, at 
209, and the Evening Mail Building east of Church St.. opposite 
St. Paul's Churchyard. We reach the subway station at Broadway. 



Fulton to Chambers Street 

ROUTE. Fulton St. siibwav station to Park Rozu (Citv Hall 
Park), to Nezv Chambers St., to Diiane, Rose, Pearl (Franklin 
Sq.), Ferry, Cliff, Beeknian, Nassau, Ann, Vesey, Church, 
Barclay, West, Chambers, City Hall Subway. 

A SHORT block north of Fulton St., at Ann, is the beginning 
of Park Row. The granite structure at the junction of Park 
Row and Broadway is the Federal Building, usually spoken of as 
the Post Ofifice. It houses the main. Post Office for Manhattan 
and the Bronx, the Law Institute and the Federal Courts. The 
building has a frontage of 89 ft., its sides are 280 ft. long and the 
rear facing the park is 277 ft. The postal facilities, which were 
ample when the building was opened in 1875, are now entirely 
inadequate to the needs of the city, and a new Post Office has 
just been completed on Eighth Ave., between 31st and 33d Sts. 
There are in Manhattan and the Bronx one main Post Office. 44 
branch offices and 255 substations. The receipts of the New York 
office in 1912 were nearly $25,000,000, the expenses less than 
$9,000,000. In all Greater New York there are 29 main offices, 81 
branch offices and 428 substations. 

On Park Row, opposite the Post Office, is the 29-story Park 
Row Building, which at the time of its erection, in 1899. was the 
highest building in the world. The foundation is 75 ft. below the 
street, and the top of the towers is 382 ft. above the street. The 
building rests upon 4,000 piers driven through the earth to bed 
rock. The twin towers stand out 'conspicuously from the mass of 
high buildings around it, when approaching the city by water. 

On the next block is the Potter Building, and adjoining it is the 
beautiful granite front building formerly occupied by the New 
York Times. The building faces Printing House Sq., the open 
space of which contains a statue of Benjamin Franklin. This 
part of Park Row is still called Newspaper Row, although sev- 
eral of the great newspapers have deserted the neighborhood. 
At the northern corner of Spruce St. is the Tribune Building, 
with a statue of Horace Greeley, the founder of the Tribune, at 
the office entrance. On the opposite corner of Spruce St., with 
the entrance on Nassau St., is the 23-story office building of the 
American Tract Society. Adjoining the 20-story Tribune Build- 
ing is the 5-story N. Y. Sun Building, formerly Lovejoy's Hotel, 
erected in 1811 as the home of Tammany Hall. 

On the opposite corner of Frankfort St. stands the Pulitzer 
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FEDERAL BUILDING. U. S. Post Office and Courts. 

Building-, better known as the World Building. Its high dome, 
which at the time of its erection, in 1890, projected far above 
the city's skyline, is now overshadowed bv the larger buildings 
around it. Visitors are admitted to the observation platform on 
top of the dome. The World Building adjoins the entrance to 
the Brooklyn Bridge, where construction work is at present 
under way for improved transit facilities. 

CITY HALL PARK is the ancient cow pasture of the Dutch 
and the Commons of the English. A corner, now the two blocks 
west of Nassau St. and north of Ann St., was deeded awav in 
Dutch times, and the lower corner was sold in 1869 to the Fed- 
eral Government for the Post Office Building, leaving about 8^ 
acres of park land. The City Hall, built between 1803 and 1812. 
was at the time of its completion on the outskirts of the city, 
and while marble was used for its front and sides, brown stone 
was used for the rear, where few would see it. The build- 
ing contains the Mayor's office, chambers of the Board of Alder- 
men, City Library and various other municipal offices, some of 
which will be transferred to the new Municipal Building. The 
building also houses a police station and the Marriage License 
Bureau. On the second floor is the Aldermanic Chamber, with 



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ill 




HALL OF RECORDS. 

a beautifully decorated ceilin.i^, and the Governor's Room, the 
show place of the building. Here is Trumbull's equestrian por- 
trait of Washington, and portraits of other national characters, 
the furniture used by the first Federal Congress, the chair used 
by Washington at his inauguration, his desk and a number of 
other historic relics. These rooms are open to the public and 
are well worth a visit. In front of the City Hall is the statue of 
Nathan Hale. 

Behind the City Hall and fronting on Chambers St. is the 
County Court House, erected between 1861 and 1867, but the 
dome which formed part of the plan was never completed. The 
erection of this building gave the Tweed Ring,, a combination 
of dishonest officials, the opportunity to rob the city of millions 
of dollars. The total cost to the city was about $12,000,000, over 
$1,000,000 going for furniture alone. It is a magnificent piece of 
architecture, but faults and omissions in its construction arp still 
occasionally cropping up. Across Chambers St. is the Emigrant 
Industrial "Savings Bank. The brown-stone building adjoining 



King's Hozv to See New York. 73 

the County Court House, is the old City Court House, of no 
special interest. At the corner of Chambers and Centre St. is 
the new Hall of Records, an elaborately decorated marble build- 
ing, opened in 1911 and costing $10,000,000. The figures and 
groups of statuary on the exterior are by Martiny and Bush- 
BroWn. The building contains the offices of the Surtogates, 
Register and Commissioner of Records. 

MUNICIPAL BUILDING, the grandest and highest muni- 
cipal building in the world, covers three irregular city blocks. The 
building has 26 stories, rising to a height of 330 ft. above the 
street, surmounted by a tower 210 ft. high, and holding eight stories. 
The total height from the subway arcade to the top of the 24-ft. 
figure on the tower is 560 ft. The principal front, facing Centre 
St., is 448 ft. long, the rear on Park Row is 361 ft., the Duane St. 
side is 339 ft. and the Tryon Row side, facing the south, is 71 ft. 
long. The foundation is 130 ft. below the street level and 90 ft. 
below water level. The cost of the building, when completed, 
will be about $10,000,000. It will house all the city departments 
except the Mayor's office and the chambers of the Board of 
Aldermen, and offices required by close subordinates of the Mayor 
and Aldermen and the Police, Fire and Dock Departments. The 
various departments which will be housed in the new building: 
now occupy rented quarters in buildings at an annual cost to 
the city of $509,420. 

Passing through the arcade in the ^lunicipal Building, a short 
distance east of Park Row is the building of the Newsboys' Lodg- 
ing House, at the junction of New Chambers and Duane Sts. 
There is perhaps no philanthropic work which has given more 
brilliant results and which has been more efficacious in preventing" 
crime and vice than this home, established by J. Loving Bruce. 
The little fellows pay a nominal sum for their lodgings and meals ; 
they are trusted if they are "broke," and are encouraged to save 
and" lead clean lives without becoming effeminate. 

At the corner of Duane and Rose Sts. is the Rhinelander 
Building, on the site of the Rhinelander Sugar House, which was 
used as a prison for American soldiers in the war for independ- 
ence. Imbedded in the wall on the Rose St. side, adjoining the 
entrance, is a barred window of the old sugar house. The build- 
ing is occupied by the printing plant of the Nezv York American 
and Journal, and other printing and allied concerns. A short 
block north (away from the Bridge viaduct) brings us back to 
New Chambers St., at a spot where several streets cross, and the 
stranger is apt to become confused. He turns to the left at the 
corner of Rose St. into Pearl St., which is here a \vide thorough- 



74 King's How to See Nezv York. 

fare. Going one block to the right on Pearl St. is Franklin Sq., 
where the bridge structure crosses over the "L" station. On the 
pier, near the Dover St. corner, a bronze plate states that it is 
the site of the Walter Franklyn House, which Washington occu- 
pied during the first year of his presidency. Cherry St., the nar- 
row street running north from the square, was the Fifth Avenue 
of that day, and a few of the houses, now slum tenements, still 
remain. Washington's Staff lived at No. 29. At. No. 27 Cherry 
St., Capt. Chester Reid lived, and here the first American flag of 
the present design was made. John Hancock lived at No. 5. At 
the corner of Dover St. is the Richard K. Fox Building, part of 
which occupies the site of the Walton Mansion. It was the ele- 
gance of this building and the wealth of its owner that led the 
supporters of the Stamp Act to assert the ability of the colonists 
to pay taxes. Opposite is the Harper Publishing House. 

Going one block south we reach Peck Slip, which runs east to 
the river, and Ferry St., which runs west. Peck Slip, which ex- 
tended to near Pearl St., was the original ferry sli.j to Long 
Island. Going up Ferry St. to Cliff St., we are in the heart of 
the hides and leather district. The Schieren Building on the 
southwest corner has a tablet stating that_ ancient tanning vats 
were discovered while digging the foundations of this building. 
This locality was once Beekman's Swamp, and it is still known 
as the Swamp. The street south of Ferry St., Beekman St.. has 
an old residence of the Beekman family at the northeast corner of 
Gold St. At Beekman and Nassau Sts. are four large office build- 
ings, and several more are on Nassau St. This part of the street 
is so crowded about 5 o'clock, when the great buildings empty 
their thousands of day inhabitants, that the street is like a living 
mass slowly moving northward. At Ann and Nassau Sts. is the 
old Bennett Building, once used by the N. Y. Herald. Going up 
Ann St. to Park Row. we cross Broadway to Vesey St. Opposite 
St. Paul's Churchyard are the Real Estate Exchange and Evening 
Post Building, and at the corner of Church St. is the 18-story 
Underwood Building, and facing it offices of Trinity Parish and 
St. Paul's Chapel. 

Going up Church St. to Barclay St., the wholesale crockery 
district is reached. St. Peter's R. C. Church, at the corner, is the 
oldest R. C. Church in the city and occupies the site of the first 
church of that denomination in the city. At the foot of Barclay 
St. is the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Ferry to 
Hoboken. We turn eastward at Chambers St., pass the old hos- 
pital near Greenwich St., Cosmopolitan Hotel at corner of West 
Broadway and the side of the Chemical Bank near Broadway. 



Chambers to Canal Street 

EAST OF BROADWAY.— ROUTE. Brooklyn Bridge Subzvay 
Station, Centre St. to White St., Baxter St., south to Park 
St., Mott St., Pell St., Doyers St. to Chatham Sq., Nezv Bowery, 
Madison, Catherine, E. Broadzvay to Jefferson, return Canal, 
Bozccry to "E" Road at Chatham Sq., or Subzvay at Brook- 
lyn Bridge. 

A CIVIC center designed to hold the principal p-^tblic buildings 
has been proposed and plans have been provisionally adopted. 
This will include the present City Hall Park, and the space north of 
the Alunicipal Building as far as Worth St., between Lafayette 
St. and Park Row. Part of this area has been condemned for 
public use and the design for a new court house to replace the 
old structure behind the City Hall has been accepted. This 
building will be unique among public buildings, being a circular 
structure seven stories in height, surrounding a circular court, 
and designed to hold all the courts in the city except the Federal 
courts, the local courts of other counties in Greater New York 
and local Alunicipal and Magistrates' Courts. 

At Leonard St. is the Tombs or City Prison, occupying the block 




PROPOSED COURT HOUSE. 



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from Leonard to Frank- 
lin St. and Centre to 
Lafayette St. The orig- 
inal prison, erected on 
this site in 1838, was the 
most perfect example of 
ancient Egyptian archi- 
tecture outside of Egypt. 
It consisted of a series 
o.f connected buildings, 
inclosed within a high 
prison wall. The pres- 
ent eight-story building, 
erected about 1900, cost 
about $1,000,000. Visit- 
ors are admitted. On the 
next block from Frank- 
lin to White St. stands 
the Criminal Courts 
Building, a magnificent 
red brick and terra-cotta 
structure, which is joined 
to the Tombs by a bridge 
spanning Franklin St. 
This bridge, popularly 
called the "Bridge of 
Sighs," is modeled after 
the famous Bridge of 
Sighs of Venice. Aside 
from the general appear- 
ance of the building and its ornamental inner court, the principal 
attraction is a set of mural paintings in the room of the Criminal 
Term, Part I of the Supreme Court. Spectators are admitted to 
all court trials. The Tombs and the Criminal Courts Building are 
built upon an insecure foundation, the site being once a deep lake, 
which has been filled in. On the block above is the main ofiice of 
the Department of Health. Going one block east on White St., then 
south, we reach ^^lulberry Bend Park, officially called Columbus 
Park, with an area of 2^4 acres. Prior to 1896, the site of this 
park was covered by ramshackle houses, squalid rookeries and 
alleys, housing the most disreputable element_ of the city. This 
was the notorious Plve Points district, which, it was said, had no 
counterpart in the world for viciousness, crime and squalor. At 
the southwest corner of the park is a wide space in front of the 




THE TOMBS. 
Criminal Courts Building in distance. 



King's Hozv to See Nezv York. 77 

point formed by the junction of Park and Worth Sts., called 
PARADISE PARK. A few of the old houses still remain in the 
vicinity of these two parks, but business houses are being erected 
around them and the population which, in the '60's and '70's, was 
mainly Irish and American, with Jews in Baxter St., is now almost 
wholly Italian, poor but respectable. Where policemen were 
formerly compelled to walk in pairs in broad daylight for their 
own protection, the stranger may now walk unprotected at mid- 
night, providing he remains sober and minds his own business. 
The east side of the park is Mulberry St., "Little Italy." The best 
time to visit this section is the early morning when the street is 
lined with pushcarts, from which Italian vegetables and other food 
is sold to the Italian housewives. The religious processions on 
certain saints' days are intensely interesting. The processions take 
place at night through streets that are lit by thousands of tiny 
lamps festooned from walk to walk. These celebrations present 
a phase of foreign life with which the American is unfamiliar. 

We go east on Park St. one block to Mott St., and are in the 
heart of CHINATOWN. At the corner of Park and Mott Sts. 
is the R. C. Church of the Transfiguration. The building was 
erected in 1801 by the Zion Lutheran Church, which later became 
P. E., and now, joined with St. Timothy Church, is one of the 
fashionable P. E. Churches in the city. The building has been a 
Catholic church since 1853. Mott St., from Pell St. to Park Row. 
Pell St., which runs from Mott St. to the Bowery, and Doyers St., 
a crooked little street running from Pell to the Bowery at Chat- 
ham Sq., are occupied almost entirely by Chinamen. Here are 
their joss houses or temples, their restaurants, opium dens, gam- 
bling-houses, stores and homes. A Chinese theatre in Doyers St. 
was recently closed. The only places open to visitors without a 
guide are the joss houses, restaurants and stores. There are 
two joss houses to which the public are admitted, the one at No. 
16 Mott St. being the more elaborate. A fee of 10 cts. is demanded 
by the old priest who, in pidgin English, explains the object of 
the shrine, the elaborate carvings, the utensils employed in the 
Chinese wedding ceremonies, etc. The stores have English-speak- 
ing attendants and are reliable in their dealings with visitors. 
Visitors need have no fear about entering or dealing in these 
places. There are a number of elaborate Chinese restaurants in 
Mott and Pell Sts., which cater especially to white visitors. These 
have menus printed in Chinese and English, knives and forks are 
served instead of chop sticks, the attendants speak English and 
the diners are almost exclusively whites. The true Chinese res- 
taurants where the Orientals congregate are small, poorly fur- 



78 Kiiis^'s How to See Nezv York. 

nished and are rarely visited by whites. The visitor cannot sain 
access to an opium joint without a guide, and unless he is able to 
secure a police official, he must depend upon a local guide. There 
are always a number of men in the street who approach parties 
of visitors and offer their services as guides. These men look 
disreputable, their language is coarse and slangy, but they can 
show what they promise to show — opium smoking. It may be a 
real Chinese opium den where the Chinamen lie cuddled up on 
tables, smoking opium, oblivious of the presence of strangers, or it 




CHINATOWN. Doyers St. 

may be a private joint rigged up in Chinese fashion, where one 
person, generally a white man or woman, will smoke for the bene- 
fit of visitors, explain the process and will then offer them the 
pipe to smoke. The usual charge is $2 a person, half of which goes 
to the joint-keeper. The usual time for visiting Chinatown is at 
night, but anything that can be seen at night can be seen by day. 

We go through Pell St. to Doyers St. Near the bend is an 
arcade running through to Mott St. Near the Bowery is the Res- 
cue Mission, which is crowded with whites and Chinese every 
night. At the Bowery is Chatham Sq. In Oliver St.. a short 
block from Chatham Sq., is a Baptist Church, organized in 1795. 

Going down New Bowery we pass a small cemetery, the oldest 
Jewish cemetery in the United States, opened about 1656 by the 



King's Hozu to See New York. 79 

Congregation Shearth Israel, which still cares for it. In Roose- 
velt St., a few feet from New Bowery, is St. Joachim R. C. 
Church, popularly known as the Ragpickers' Church. Turning 
at Roosevelt St. into Madison St., we pass through the Greek 
colony, and we can here observe another phase of New York's 
cosmopolitan population. Three blocks away is Catherine St., on 
the corner of which is the N. Y. Port Societies Mariners' Church. 
The streets running northeast from Catherine St. are filled with 
cheap tenements, occupied by Russian, Polish and Roumanian 
Jews. We go up Catherine St. to E. Broadway, passing at Henry 
St. P. S. 1, an enormous school, taking in almost every national- 
ity of the world, then along E. Broadway. This street was at one 
time a fashionable residential street, and a few of the old houses, 
now converted into tenements, still remain. 

The residents are now almost exclusively Russian, Polish and 
Roumanian Jews, slightly better situated than those in neighbor- 
ing streets. At Alarket St. we pass under the approach to the new 
Manhattan Bridge. On this street, just south of E. Broadway, is 
the Presbyterian Church of Land and Sea, dedicated 1819. 

Facing the block from Rutgers to Jefferson St., is the William 
H. Seward Park, y/z acres. This park, opened in 1903, was the 
first of the many small playground parks that are now scattered 
throughout the city. Facing the park on the E. Broadway side 
are two prominent buildings, one the office of a private bank, the 
other an 11-story cream-colored brick building, occupied by the 
great Jewish daily, Forzcard. At the corner of Jefferson St. is 
the large red brick building of the Educational Alliance, a philan- 
thropic institution, having for its main object the Americanization 
of the foreign Jew, without destroying Jewish ideals. It contains 
a kindergarten and classes where foreigners, children and adults, 
are taught English and the principles of American government, 
besides the ordinary school subjects. The marble front building 
facing the park on the east, between E. Broadway and Division 
St., is a branch of the New York Public Library, and the building 
directly north of the park, between Essex and Norfolk Sts., is a 
public school. Edgar Allan Poe once lived at No. 195. Looking down 
E. Broadway, the view is closed by the factory with red tower of 
R. Hoe & Co., makers of printing presses, established 1804. 

We turn back at this point through Canal St. to the Bowery, 
passing the 11-story Jarmolowsky Building at Orchard St. and the 
6-story Jewelers' Building at Forsyth St. The upper floors of the 
latter are occupied exclusively by manufacturing jewelers and 
dealers in precious stones. 

At the Bow^ery, occupying the block from Canal to Bayard St., 




Court House Municipal Bldg. City Hall "Wo 

CITY HALL PARK. Scene of official ceremonies. Cost of city governmen 

is the entrance to the new Manhattan Bridge. Opposite the | 

tridge entrance is the ThaHa Theatre, one of the few remaining 
relics of the days when the Bowery was famous and before it 
became notorious. The New York Theatre, opened on this site in ' 

1826, replaced the Bull's Head Tavern, famous in Revolutionary 
days. It was here that Washington was met by the body of i 

citizens as the British departed Nov. 25, 1783. The New York j 

Theatre, later called the Bowery Theatre, opened as the largest j 

and most sumptuous playhouse in America, and for over 50 years 
it remained one of New York's most famous theatres. It became i 

3. German playhouse in 1879. The present building was erected 
in 1847. Adjoining it on the north is a small building, occupied ' 

from 1859 to 1912 as an amusement resort, called Atlantic Garden, 
the garden part being an open court in the rear. This was the i 

last of the open-air gardens which were popular amusement places •! 

in the city ifor over two centuries. Before 1878, when the "L" 
structure was erected and darkened the street, this part of the { 

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Bowery was the brightest, gayest and liveliest street in the city. 
We are now back in Chatham Sq. and can take the "L" road 
or go down Park Row to City Hall. On Mulberry St., a few doors 
from Park Row, reached through an alley, is the Bismark Hotel, 
the largest of the poor 10-ct. lodging-houses. Near and in Baxter 
St. are a few of the old-time second-hand clothing stores which 
made Chatham St., as Park Row was formerly called, notorious. 
There is nothing else of interest until we reach City Hall Park. 

WEST OF BROADWAY.— ROUTE. Chambers St., Sixth Ave. 
"L" Station, Diiaiie, Hudson, Beach, W. Broadway, Canal. 
West, Desbrosses to Ninth Ave. "L" Station. 

THIS section of the city is almost wholly commercial, with a 
few old residences, and where. these are torn down commer- 
cial houses take their place. Going north to Duane St.. and toward 
the Hudson River, there is a little patch of green at Hudson and 
Duane Sts. It is the last remnant of the Annecke Jans farm, 

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which was sold to Gov. Lovelace in 1671 and became part of the 
Duke's, later King's and Queen's farm. This farm was granted 
in 1705 to Trinity Church, and that church still owns large par- 
cels of land in this vicinity. In 1731 heirs of Annecke Jans 
claimed that the transfer of 1671 was imperfect and sued for the 
land. Although there have been repeated suits, every one being 
decided in favor of Trinity Church, descendants still claim this 
land and sometimes attempt to enforce their claim. 

On Hudson St., at Jay, is the New York Hospital House of 
Relief, The block from Beach to Laight St. and extending back 
to Varick is occupied by the freight depot of the N. Y. C. & H. R. 
R. R. It is a commonplace brick structure, having, however, an 
elaborate bronze group, representing Commerce and Transporta- 
tion, in the pediment. It occupies the site of St. John's Park, 
which was surrounded by fashionable residences half a century 
or more ago. Some of these buildings are still standing, being 
now poor tenements. The house No. 36 Beach St. was the resi- 
dence of John Ericsson, the inventor of the "Monitor," until his 
death, and the adjoining house was once the residence of J, Feni- 
more Cooper. On the corner of Varick St. is the new police sta- 
tion of the Fourth Precinct, and just to the north is St. John's 
Chapel, of Trinity parish, now closed on account of slack attend- 
ance. The small triangular plot at Beach St. and W. Broadway 
is all that remains of St. John's Park. Two blocks north is Canal 
St., the width of which is due to the fact that it was at one time 
a creek flowing through a marsh. The sides were boarded up, 
making it a canal with a causeway across it about W. Broadway. 
The canal was later partly filled in, leaving the stream to flow in 
the sewer, now several feet below. We go up Canal St., to West, 
then south, where we can witness the enormous water front traffic. 

At Desbrosses St. is the pier of the HUDSON RIVER DAY 
LINE, established in 1863 and now operating the finest fleet of 
river steamers in the world, including the "Washington Irving," 
"Hendrick Hudson," "Robert Fulton" and "Albany." The "Wash- 
ington Irving," which is the most sumptuous and commodious 
craft ever operated on inland waters, carries 6,000 passengers, is 
425 ft. long and 85 ft. beam. Trips on these steamers up the 
Hudson to Albany or way landings, or making the one-day outing 
to West Point, Nevvburgh or Poughkeepsie and return, form_ the 
most delightful excursions around New York. Uptown landings 
at the foot of W. 42d St. and W. 129th St. 

The Pennsylvania R. R. Ferry adjoins. We turn up Des- 
brosses St. to the Ninth Ave. "L" station, as the streets south to 
Reade, near the river, are occupied chiefly by produce merchants. 



Canal to Houston Street 

EAST OF BOWERY.— ROUTE. Grand St. Station Third Ave. 
"L," Grand St., Ludlow St., Hester, Clinton, Delancey, to- 
Columbia, to Stanton, to Willett, to Rivington, to Chrystie, to 
Houston, to Bowery, to the Elevated at Houston or Grand St. 

THIS tour takes us through the Ghetto district and part of the 
Bowery. It is the section usually referred to when speaking 
of the "lower east side." Grand St. is the principal business street 
■of this section. At the corner of Chrystie St. is the new Grand 
Theatre, on the site of Lord & Taylor's early store. On the cor- 
ner of Ludlow St. is Public School 37. A few steps north of 
Grand St. is the County Jail, a plain red brick structure where 
Federal prisoners and other prisoners who are under personal 
<:harge of the sheriff are lodged. It is facetiously called the home 
of the alimony club, as most of the prisoners are men who decline 
to carry out the court's decree to pay alimony to their wives. 
The white painted brick building on the Grand St. side is a 
public school, formerly the Essex Market. 

Going south on Ludlow St. to Hester, we are in the heart of 
the Ghetto. The streets are crowded with push carts, the walks 
littered with stands and baskets from which the vendors sell 
their wares, and a pushing, clamoring mass of humanity — women 
with their market baskets, crying children and babies, and here 
and there a man forcing his way through the mass while the 
-women and peddlers hurl imprecations at him — form a scene of 
confusion which has no counterpart in the world. Here is a 
sink of dirt and poverty, yet out of it rose men and women who 
have achieved world-wide fame. Crime is exceedingly rare, for 
while bargaining and bickering are the rule of trade, even petty 
theft is looked upon as a heinous offense, and the tin pan and 
dish rag are the most deadly weapons they employ upon each 
other in their altercations. We go east on Hester St., passing, 
opposite Seward Park, P. S. 62, one of the largest in the city, 
to Clinton St. and up Clinton St., which is like Hester St. for a 
block or two. Just north of Grand St. is Clinton St. Hall, an 
amusement and meeting place erected as part of a philanthropic 
project to furnish places where dancing and other amusements 
■can be had, free from objectionable features and at minimum cost. 

At the corner of Delancey St. is the 13th precinct police sta- 
tion, the newest and largest building of its kind in the city. Here 
is also the approach to the Williamsburg Bridge. An odd fea- 
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ture, showing the extent of Jewish traffic, is the signs over the 
trolley-car entrances, giving the destinations of the cars in 
Hebrew and English. From Pitt St. eastward, Delancey St. is 
partly covered by the bridge approach, and here is the retail fish 
and vegetable market, also stalls where other goods are sold, 
Those who can stand the dirt and smell will find here a most 
interesting sociological study, and the bargain hunter who is an 
adept at bickering may pick up real bargains. 

We go north on Sheriff St. to Houston St., pass Hamilton 
Fish Park, between Stanton and Houston St Two blocks east 
is P. S. 188, the largest school building in the world. Going back 
on Houston St. and through Willett to Rivington, then west, we see 
another sight such as on Hester St. Here are Hungarian and 
Galician Jews who, coming from a more liberal government than 
the Russians and Poles, are less clannish and more readily adopt 
American ways. An idea of the density of the population in this 
section can be gained from the fact that on and within two blocks- 
of Rivington St. there are 16 public schools holding over 30,000- 
school children. At No. 95 Rivington St. is the College Settle- 
ment, and at the corner of Eldridge St. is the University Settle- 
ment, the latter established in 1886. It has a kindergarten, 145. 
clubs, gymnasium, baths, lecture and concert halls, etc. This is 
one of the most efficient of the local philanthropies. Visitors are- 
welcome. At Rivington and Chrystie Sts. is Mills Hotel No. 2. 
Going north on Chrystie St. to Houston, we pass Italian quarters. 
On the Houston St. block between Chrysti^ and the Bowery are 
the Jewish Theatre, at the corner of Chrystie St., and St. Augus- 
tin's Chapel of Trinity Church, built upon an L-shaped plot. 

We turn south at the Bowery. It is no longer the Bowery 
"where they say such things and they do such things" of the song.. 
Some low drinking-places and cheap lodging-houses still remain, 
but the dives, dens and iDrothels are things of the past. On the 
block between Stanton and Rivington Sts. is an Italian theatre, 
the famous Bowery Mission and, adjoining it, the 10-story Sal- 
vation Army Hotel. The Bowery Mission has acquired a world- 
wide reputation through its "bread line." Soon after midnight, 
the homeless and hungry collect here, form a line and at 1 A. M. 
they enter one by one to receive their dole of a cup of coffee 
and a half loaf of bread. The distribution attracts a number of 
sight-seers nightly. On the block below, opposite Spring St., is 
Miner's People's Theatre. This has been a theatrical site since 
Tony Pastor opened his theatre here in 1865. The present thea- 
tre was opened in 1883 as a fashionable theatre, but it could 
not attract the fashionable audience for which it w^as intended. The 



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next street is Delancey, the entrance to the Wilhamsburg Bridge. 
On the next block, near Broome St., is the Royal Theatre. At 
the corner of Broome St., is the Bowery branch of the Y. M. C. A., 
with a dormitory and restaurant, where the needy can get a meal 
for a nickel. Near Grand St. is the Bowery Savings Bank, one of 
the strongest savings institutions in the country. It has about 
145,000 accounts, over $100,000,000 on deposit and nearly $10,000,- 
000 surplus. On the corner is the Bowery Bank, a national bank. 

WEST OF BOWERY.— ROUTE. Canal St. Subway Station, up 
Lafayette St. to Grand, Centre, Prince, Mott, Houston to 
Lafayette, to Bleecker St. Subway Station. 

THIS is an old section, having little of special interest to the 
sight-seer except the new Police Headquarters, the old R. C. 
Cathedral and a few business houses having a world-wide repu- 
tation. Lafayette St., formerly called Elm St., was widened to 
relieve the congestion of traffic on Broadway. 

At Howard St., one block north of Canal, is the new building 
of THE BRADSTREET COMPANY, proprietors of the widely 
known mercantile agency, and contains its printing and bookbind- 
ing departments. This company, established over sixty years ago, 
with offices and connections throughout the civilized world, issues 
a quarterly volume containing the commercial ratings of bankers, 
mercliants, manufacturers, etc. The information relating to mer- 
cantile credits which it supplies to its clients enables them to enter 
into business relations with merchants in any other city however 
remote. It also publishes weekly "BRADSTREET'S," a journal 
of trade, finance and public economy. 

At the northwest corner of Grand St. is the old headquar- 
ters of the Board of Education. One block east is the POLICE 
HEADQUARTERS, a granite and limestone building, sur- 
mounted by a fine dome. Here are the offices of the Commissioner 
and his Deputies, the Detective Division, Rogues' Gallery, cells 
for criminal prisoners, drill halls, etc. The police force consists 
of about 10,850 men, including 9,000 patrolmen, 1,350 higher offi- 
cers, 25 surgeons, 6 chaplains, 70 matrons, 478 detectives, 60 men 
in the harbor police (Police Steamboat Patrol), about 480 
mounted men, 75 motor-cycle and bicycle men. Nearly 500 offi- 
cers and men are engaged in regulating traffic. The entire force 
is stationed in 100 precincts. There are also five traffic precincts, a 
harbor squad with three sub-stations, a bridge squad at each of the 
East River bridges and several minor squads (sanitary, tenement- 
house, public office, etc.). Just east, on Broome St., is the Broome 
St. Tabernacle. Proceeding northward, we pass Kenmare St., the 




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POLICE HEADQUARTERS, 
newly opened extension of Delancey St., which leads to the Will- 
iamsburg Bridge, and the small Kenmare Park, and at Spring St , 
Centre St., here called Cleveland PI, joins Lafayette. Just north 
of Spring St. IS the engine-house of the large searchlight used in 
fighting night fires. At the northwest corner of Prince and La- 
fayette Sts. is an old shabby brick house, now used for manufac- 
turing purposes. It was here that President Monroe died on July 
4, 1831. Going east on Prince St., at Mott St. is St. Patrick's 
Church, formerly the Cathedral, surrounded by a brick wall. The 
church was erected in 1818 in what was then the outskirts of the 
city. There are some Catholics of local prominence buried in the 
churchyard. On the southwest corner is a branch of the R. C. 
Orphan Asylum, and on Mott St.. opposite the churchy is the 
industrial school of the Children's Aid Society. Going west on 
Houston St., the large marble front building on Mulberry St., just 
north of Houston St., is the old Police Headquarters. At La- 
fayette St. is the Puck Building. There is nothing of interest in 
this part of the city west of Broadway except the waterfront 
traffic along West St., which may be reached by street car. The 
subway is a block north, at Bleecker and Lafayette Sts. 



Houston to 14tli Street 

EAST OF BROADWAY.— ROUTE. Houston St. "E" Station, 
Boivery, 3d St., Great Jones St., Lafayette St., Astor PI., 
Third Ave., 13th St., First Ave., 12th St., Second Ave., 6th 
St., Ave. A, yth St., Ave. B, 3d St., Ave. A, 2d St., Second 
Ave., ist St., Bozuery to Houston St. 

THIS is an interesting section, containing many prominent sites 
and buildings and odd phases of life. The "L" railroad 
which runs here on a single line of pillars was called by De 
Lesseps an audacious piece of engineering. 

Going up the Bowery, we pass the Hadley Rescue Mission, a 
few doors north of Houston St. The building was formerly the 
Germania Assembly Rooms, a dance and meeting hall built on 
the site of Gotham Gardens, one of the most popular amusement 
resorts in the city in the '50's. Adjoining the Assembly Rooms 
was, a few years ago, a notorious dive which became known as 
Suicide Hall, on account of the many suicides committed there. 
At No. 38 Bleecker St., west of the Bowery, is the N. Y. Protes- 
tant Episcopal City Mission. Bond St., the next one north and 
only two short blocks, running to Broadway, was a fashionable 
residence street. Washington Irving lived at No. 43 and the Jay 
family at No. 20. Corner 3d St. is the Dry Dock Savings Insti- 
tution, occupying one of the few artistic buildings on the old thor- 




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oughfare. Great Jones St., which begins opposite 3d St. and runs 
to Broadway, has one of the show engine stations of the Fire 
Department. At the corner of Lafayette St. is the Mission of the 
Immaculate Virgin, a home for destitute Roman Catholic children. 
It houses 375 boys from 14 to 18 years of age. A branch at Mt. 
Loretto, Staten Island, has 2,000 orphan children. There is also 
a branch for colored orphan children and a summer home for 
boys. The bronze statue of Father Drumgoole, the founder, 
stands in front of the building. 

The two blocks from Great Jones St. to Astor PI. were opened 
in 1826, during the visit of Lafayette, and named after him. In 
1899 Elm St. was widened and cut through to Lafayette PI., and 
the whole street called Lafayette St. At 4th St. is the DeVinne 
Press, a large printing establishment. On the west side, north of 
4th St., is the Diocesan House of the P. E. Church, a pretty 
white Gothic building. Xear Astor PI. is the Colonnade, an old 
structure, formerly a collection of residences, in one of which the 
first John Jacob Astor lived. Opposite it is the building occupied 
by the Astor Library before it moved to the new building on 
Fifth Ave. Facing Astor PI. on the north, is Wanamaker's new 
building; on the west is the Mercantile Library. This is a pri- 
vate library, established in 1820, having a quarter of a million 
volumes which are loaned to subscribers. Near the subway en- 
trance is a statue of S. S. Cox, a former Congressman who cham- 
pioned the letter carriers in their efforts for better working 
conditions. After his death the letter carriers of the country 
contributed funds to erect this statue. At Fourth Ave., extending 
to Third Ave., are two noteworthy buildings. Cooper Union on 
the south and Bible House on the north. The BIBLE HOUSE, 
erected by the American Bible Society in 1852, was at that time 
the largest office building in America. It is now occupied by this 
society, several missionary societies and other bodies, philanthropic 
and commercial, also the offices of the Christian Herald. 

COOPER UNION was built by Peter Cooper in 1857, to 
furnish free education to persons employed during the day. Its 
scope has been gradually enlarged until to-day full collegiate 
courses are given in day and evening schools, and there are 
classes in telegraphy, stenography and art (drawing, painting, 
modelling, wood-carving, etc.). All classes are free, but when 
the number of applicants for admission exceeds the capacity of 
the classes, special classes are formed in some of the art branches 
and a small charge is made. The building has a large lecture 
hall in the basement, where free lectures are given almost nightly 
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COOPER UNION. 



occupies an upper floor. It contains a complete set of Patent 
Office reports, and there are about 450 newspapers on file. The 
reading-room is open from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. and is generally 
crowded in the evening. It is well worth a visit. In the little 
triangle south of the building stands a statue of Peter Cooper, 
erected from funds contributed by students of the schools. The 
Abram Hewitt Memorial Annex to the school was recently 
erected on the block on Third Ave. from 6th to 7th St., on the 
site of Tompkins Market, once the armory of the Seventh Regi- 
ment. Just in the rear, on 7th St., is the Church of St. George, 
the only Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church in New York ; it has 
7,000 members. A branch of the Salvation Army is on Cooper 
Square, as the space south of Cooper Union is called. 

Near the junction of Stuyvesant and 9th Sts., just east of 
Third Ave., is the Hebrew Technical Institute, a free, non-secta- 
rian technical school for boys, with night classes for day workers. 
Visitors are welcome. At 11th St. and Third Ave. is the Chil- 
dren's Court, a branch of the Court of Special Sessions, in which 
malefactors under 16 years of age are tried. These trials are 
interesting studies for the sociologist. A marble front building 
on Fourth Ave., facing 11th St., is the Grace Church Nursery, 
and just below is the Choir School where the choir boys live; 
they come from all over the country and sing in the church in 



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exchange for their board, schooHng, etc. At 12th St. and Third 
Ave. is the Trow printing establishment, where the city directo- 
ries are printed. A bronze plate on the house on the northeast 
corner of 13th St. indicates the site of Gov. Stuyvesant's famous 
pear-tree. We go east ou 13th St., passing on the corner of 
Second Ave. the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, organized in 
1820. Just beyond First Ave. there is an elaborate structure ex- 
tending to 14th St, the Grace Church Settlement. It includes a 
hospital, homes for old men, old women and children, a kinder- 
garten, cooking-school, gymnasium, clubs and classes. 

Going down First Ave. to 12th St., the way is lined with push 
carts and vendor wagons. This is locally called "Paddy's Mar- 
ket." Twelfth St., in the vicinity of First Ave., the heart of an 
Italian colony, is notorious for the many bomb outrages perpe- 
trated by the Black Hand, a collection of Italian blackmailers. 
Going west on 12th St. to Second Ave., we pass the Elizabeth 
Home for Girls and come to a section which a generation ago 
was a fashionable quarter of the city, and only recently was the 
Keteltas Mansion, corner St. Mark's PI. (8th St.), the last of the 
famous mansions deserted. 

Between 13th and 12th Sts. is the People's Hospital, a small 
non-sectarian institution supported almost wholly by Jews. On 
the block between 12th and 11th Sts. is St. Mark's Hospital. Cor- 
ner 11th St. is the old home of the N. Y. Historical Society, now 
a home for boys. Adjoining it is the Second Ave. Baptist Church, 
famous for its missionary work. Opposite this is St. Mark's P. E. 
Church, one of the historical churches of the city. It is on the 
site of the chapel erected by Gov. Stuyvesant near his house on 
his farm. The land was given by one of his descendants to the 
P. E. Church, and a new church edifice was erected here in 1799. 
The Governor's body lies in a vault under the tablet in the east 
wall of the church. The churchyard contains the vaults of many 
eminent New York families. About in the center of the church- 
yard is the vault from which the body of A. T. Stewart, the 
millionaire merchant, was stolen on October 7, 1878. Just below 
10th St. is the granite front of the Cafe Boulevard, a famous 
east side restaurant. The building itself was one of the largest 
of the fashionable mansions. Near 9th St. is the German Poli- 
klinik. Near St. Mark's PI. is the House of the Holy Family, a 
reformatory for girls; visitors not admitted. Just below 7th St. 
is the Middle Collegiate Reformed Church, the successor of the 
Middle Dutch Church, one of the churches originating from the 
first church community, organized in 1628. Around the corner, 
on 6th St., to the east, is a Hebrew Neighborhood House, and 



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just beyond is St. Mark's Lutheran Church. It was on the excur- 
sion of the Sunday-school of this church that the steamboat 
"General Slocum" took fire and about 1,000 persons, mostly 
women and children, were killed in June, 1904. From Ave. A to 
Ave. B from 7th to 10th St. is Tompkins Sq., a park of IQY2 
acres, planned on the city map of 1811 and purchased in 1834 for 
$93,350. The whole vicinity a generation ago was a German 
colony, popularly called "Klein-Deutschland" (Little Germany). 
On Ave. B and 8th St. is St. Brigid R. C. Church, once almost 
exclusively Irish, now mainly Italian. On the opposite corner is 
the Children's Aid Society. In no section of the city has the 
character of population changed so completely in one generation 
as in the section surrounding this park. A few of the old German 
establishments are still found on lower Ave. A and in the side 
streets, but the Hungarian Jew predominates. Going down Ave. 
B to 3d St., and west, we pass the R. C. Church of the Most Holy 
Redeemer, and on 2d St., west of Ave. A, is St. Nicholas R. C. 
Church, organized in 1833, the first German R. C. Church in the 
city. Nearly opposite the church, facing on 2d St., is Har 
Moriah Hospital. On the block between First and Second Ave. is 
the Marble Cemetery. President Monroe was buried here before 
the removal of his body to Virginia. Adjoining is the La Salle 
Academy, and opposite is the Olivet Memorial Church. At the 
corner of Second Ave. is the New Kessler Theatre, a Jewish play- 
house. Going through 1st St. to the Bowery, a block which but a 
few years ago was one of the vilest in the city but now entirely 
cleared, a short block south is Houston St. and the "L" station. 

WEST OF BROADWAY.— ROUTE. Bleecker St. Station, 
Sixth Ave. "L," Bleecker St., Grove to Christopher, Green- 
wich Ave., Jackson Sq., Eighth Ave., 12th St., West St., I4t^i 
St., University PL, 8th St. to Subway. 

THIS was the old village of Greenwich which, while never a 
separate community politically, had distinctive characteristics. 
It was known as the American Ward, most of its residents being 
descendants of the early stock who settled here in the beginning 
of the 19th century. Business is now converting this into_ a com- 
mercial district. The chief interest in this section lies in its local 
historical associations. 

Proceeding up Bleecker St., through what was once a fashionable 
American and later the French quarter, we pass Mills Hotel No. 1, 
from Thompson to Sullivan St. These hotels are philanthropic 
institutions but not charities, and while erected to be simply 
self-supporting their popularity has made them profitable. They 



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furnish the usual hotel accommodations to men who can pay 
only 25 to 35 cts. a day for meals and lodging. Where Bleecker 
St. turns northward, is the R. C. Church of Madonna of Pompeii. 
Thomas Paine lived at No. 293, and died in a house near the cor- 
ner of Grove St., where we turn east to Christopher, one of the 
old village streets which still has a few of the old houses. Where 
the streets come together there is a small triangle called Chris- 
topher St. Park. At Waverly PI. is the Northern Dispensary, 
which has been here since 1828, and on the northeast is the 
Switzer Institute and Home for Girls. 

Christopher St. begins at Greenwich Ave., where that thor- 
oughfare joins Sixth Ave. At the junction is Jefferson Market, 
the only public market left which is not on a water front. Ad- 
joining the market building is the Jefferson Market Court House, 
a notable red brick building, with a circular tower surmounted by 
a pyramidal top. One of the night courts is held here. These 
courts were established to give speedy trial to persons arrested 
after the usual court hours. The Waverly, at No. 38 W. 10th St.. 
is a probationaryhome to which fallen women are sometimes com- 
mitted. Greenwich Ave. is an anti-revolutionary thoroughfare, 
being part of the inland road to Greenwich. After the British 
landed at Kips Bay (E. 35th St,), Manhattan, after the Battle of 
Long Island, the Americans in the lower part of the city went up 
this road to Greenwich and then along roads from Greenwich to 
the upper part of the island. Greenwich Ave. now ends at Jack- 
son Sq., which was the village green a century ago. At 11th St. 
is St. Vincent's Hospital. Here Seventh Ave. begins. At 245 W. 
13th St. is the Florence Crittenton Mission for fallen women, and 
nearer the corner a branch library. Here is Jackson Sq., which 
we cross and go down Eighth Ave., reaching Abingdon Sq. at 12th 
St. This was a fashionable section, almost exclusively American, 
about 1850, and some of the fashionable houses of that period are 
still standing on the north and east sides of the square. At the 
southwest corner of 12th St. is Trowmart Inn, a hotel for women, 
corresponding to the Mills Hotels for men. 

We go through W. 12th St. to West St., where are more great 
piers. The large building on the block below is the Western 
Electric Company. Turning north on West St., we pass the build- 
ing of the American Seamen's Friends Society, presented by Mrs. 
Russell Sage. This society was founded in 1842, at No. 190 
Cherry St. At Gansevoort St. are two markets, the West' Washing- 
ton Market for meat and live poultry, on the west, and the Farm- 
ers' IVIarket. an open space for farmers' wagons, on the east of 
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7 A. M. By 10 or 11 o'clock the business is over, and the farmers 
who have disposed of their stock depart, while the others cover 
their wagons and await more customers the next morning. At 
the southwest corner of this open space is one of the high-pres- 
sure pumping stations of the Fire Department, where electrically 
driven pumps supply water through special mains at such pressure 
that fire engines are unnecessary. This station is equipped to take 
salt water from the river if desired. On the river back of the 
market is a fire-boat station. At the foot of Little W. 12th St. is 
the beginning of the Chelsea Piers, described in the next chapter. 
We go two blocks north to 14th St., then eastward. At Eiglith 
Ave. is the New York Savings Bank, on the north, and the New 
York County National Bank on the southwest corner. On the 
block between Seventh and Sixth Ave. is the American Head- 
quarters of the Salvation Army, occupying a large building at 
No. 120 and the adjoining old Maxwell ]\Iansion. Opposite is the 
Armory of the Ninth Coast Artillery, and next door is the 14th 
St. Theatre, which was opened as a French Theatre in 1869. It 
is now used for photoplays. The block from Sixth to Fifth Ave. 
was famous for its department stores 
a generation ago. At the Sixth Ave. 
corner R. H. Alacy introduced the 
department-store idea about 50 years 
ago. On this corner is now the 14th 
St. Store, one of the largest in the 
city. On the same block is Hearn's, 
an old-time establishment. On the 
opposite side of the street is the Bu- 
chanan Mansion, with grounds ex- 
tending to 15th St. The large brick 
building, which can be seen beyond 
the grounds, is the New York Hos- 
pital. At University PI. we reach 
Union Sq. Going south on Univer- 
sity PL, we pass, at 12th St., the N. Y. 
Society Library, established in 1754. 
It is a private library of over 100,000 
volumes, free for reference. At Uth 
St. is the Hotel Albert, at 10th St. 
is the University PI. Presbyterian 
Church, established 1845, and at 9th 
St. the Lafayette, a French hotel. 
Turn east on Eighth St. to the sub- 
way at Astor PI. LINCOLN MONUMENT. 




14tk to 23(1 Street 

EAST OF BROADWAY,— ROUTE. Fourteenth St. Subway, 
15th St., Irving PI., 20th St. (Gramercy Park), Fourth Ave., 
23d St., Second Ave., 14th St., Fourth Ave., Subzvay. 

ON the south corner of Fourth Ave. and 15th St. is the Union 
Sq. Hotel and on the north corner the Union Sq. Savings 
Bank, formerly the Institution for the Savings of Merchants' 
Clerks. One block east of Fourth Ave. is Irving PI., a once fash- 
ionable thoroughfare which immense loft buildings are converting 
into a business street. At the corner of 15th St. is the Irving PI. 
Theatre, the chief German playhouse in the city. On the opposite 
corner the Consolidated Gas Company is erecting a 13-story build- 
ing. The lower part of the central structure is an old 7-story 
building, which the architects have been able to incorporate into 
the main structure by building on both sides, behind and above the 
other. The portion above the old structure is built upon 40-ton 
girders, supported at the ends by the sides of the new building, 
thereby relieving the old building of the weight of the super- 
structure. 

The Nemo Corset Building is on the southwest corner of 16th 
St., and the Borgfeldt Building on the northwest. 

The east side of the block, from 16th to 17th St., is taken up 
by the WASHINGTON IRVING HIGH SCHOOL, one of the 
two high schools for girls in Manhattan. The 8-story building 
houses over 5,000 students and is in size and equipment unsur- 
passed among the public schools of the city or country. At the 
southwest corner of 17th St. is the quaint old residence once occu- 
pied by Washington Irving and his nephew, and at 18th St. is 
Huyler's candy factory. 

Irving PI. ends at 20th St. Here is Gramercy Park, of IY2 
acres, set aside by S. B. Ruggles, one time owner of the land, for 
the use of the surrounding tenants. It is not open to the public. 

On 20th St., a few feet east of Irving PL, is the Orthodox 
Friends' Meeting-house. Next door is the office of the Commis- 
sioner of Correction, where passes can be obtained to visit the 
correctional institutions maintained by the city. On the east side 
of the park is the Gramercy Park Building, one of the finest apart- 
ment houses in this part of the city. On the north and west side 
of the park are several mansions, formerly residences of famous 
New Yorkers, including David Dudley Field, Cyrus W. Field, 
William Steinway, Nicholas Fish, John Bigelow, Peter Cooper, 
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UNION SQUARE AND FOURTH AVE. 

Abram S. Hewitt, etc. The house of the latter, at the corner of 
21st St. and Lexington Ave., is occupied by the Princeton Club. 
On 20th St., west of Irving PI., are three prominent clubs, the Co- 
lumbia University Club at No. 18, Players at No. 16 and National 
Arts Club at No. 14 Gramercy Park. The Players is a theatrical 
organization, founded 1887. The building was presented to the 
club by Edwin Booth, who reserved some rooms as his living 
apartments and died there. 

At Fourth Ave. and 20th St. is All Souls' Unitarian Church, 
organized in 1819 and erected here in 1855. William CuUen Bry- 
ant, Peter Cooper and Joseph H. Choate worshiped here. Fourth 
Ave. is now in a transitory stage, this old residence street being 
rapidly converted into a commercial thoroughfare, with immense loft 
and office buildings on the sites of famous hotels and residences. The 
Clarendon Building replaced the Hotel Clarendon, southwest cor- 
ner of 18th St., the stopping-place of the Prince of Wales, later 
King Edward VH. of England, when he visited New York in 
1860. Turning north, at 21st St., is Calvary Episcopal Church. At 
22d St. is a group of prominent buildings. On the southeast cor- 
ner is the Church Missionary Society Building, occupied almost 
exclusively by religious bodies. At the northeast corner is the 



98 Kings Hozv to See New York. 

Charities Building, presented by Kennedy to the Charity Organi- 
zation Society and the Association for Improving the Condition 
of the Poor. At the southwest corner is the low white marble 
building of the Bank for Savings, the first savings bank in New 
York City. On the northwest corner is a loft building. Adjoin- 
ing this, on the site of the Y. M. C. A. Building, is a 12-story 
building occupied principally by book concerns. Adjoining the 
Charities Building, is the building of the Society for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Children, with dormitories on the upper 
floors for neglected children. 

The north side of 23d St., from Fourth to Madison Ave., is 
occupied by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building. At Lex- 
ington Ave. is the old red brick building occupied by the College 
of the City of New York from 1848 to 1905. At the northeast 
corner of Third Ave. is the N. Y. Ophthalmic Hospital for Treat- 
ment of the Eye, Ear and Throat, and adjoining it is the N. Y. 
College of Dentistry. On the same block is P. S." 47, for the deaf. 
Corner Second Ave. is Demilt Dispensary, founded in 1851. 

Going southward on Second Ave., we again pass through an 
old residential section which is rapidly degenerating. Just below 
22d St. is the R. C. Church of the Epiphany, with its school on 
22d St. At 21st St. is the building of the UNITED HEBREW 
CHARITIES. The Jews of New Y^ork look after their poor, 
orphans, sick,_ aged and dead, and their philanthropic institutions 
and organizations are so numerous and so varied in their scope and 
activities as to entirely relieve the community from the care of 
any class of needy oi that faith. The United Hebrew Charities 
co-operates with various sisterhoods, relief societies, orphan asy- 
lums, etc. Other organizations look after the sick, the immi- 
grants and victims of persecution in other countries. There are six 
large hospitals, four homes for the aged, several for children, a home 
for working girls, one society looks after the deaf, another has a 
free employment bureau for the handicapped, several aid those who 
wish to follow agriculture. There are free loan associations, free 
burial associations, societies to aid the Jewish prisoner, the wid- 
owed mother, the mother and child needing a vacation. A worthy 
Jewish philanthropy which deserves to be copied is the National 
Desertion Bureau. It acts as a legal advisor to all Jewish chari- 
table organizations in the United States in matters relating to 
desertion, divorce and marital relations generally. Many of the 
Jewish philanthropies are unsectarian. No one factor has done 
more to dispel race prejudice toward the Jews than their willing- 
ness to open their philanthropic institutions to Jew and Gentile 
alike. Their great technical schools and five hospitals, including Alt. 



King's How to See Nezv York. 99 

Sinai and Lebanon in the Bronx, the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn 
and the Alontefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, are non-sectarian, 
although supported almost exclusively by Jews. 

At 20th St. is the famous Post-Graduate Medical School and Hos- 
pital, and opposite the school, just east of Second Ave., is the Fahne- 
stock Training School for Nurses, with P. S. 40 just beyond. 
West of Second Ave. is the small Columbus Hospital, in charge 
of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and patronized almost 
exclusively by Italians. At 19th St. is the N. Y. Skin and Cancer 
Hospital, one of the largest hospitals for these diseases in the 
United States. The block from 18th to 17th St. is occupied by the 
Lying-in Hospital, organized in 1798. This building, erected and 
fitted up at an expense of nearly $1,000,000, which was defrayed 
by the late J. P. Morgan, is the largest and best-equipped institu- 
tion of its kind in the world. The hospital has 176 beds and cares 
for over 13,000 patients in the hospital and a larger number of 
outside cases annually. 

Stuyvesant Sq., which is divided into two parks by Second Ave., 
was presented to the city in 1836 by a descendant of the last 
Dutch Governor. It was formerly surrounded by residences of 
the old Dutch and English families, including the Stuyvesants, 
Rutherfords, Fishes, Everts, etc. A few of these old families are 
still found in the vicinity, but most of the houses are being con- 
verted for commercial or cheap residence purposes or removed. 
At the west side of the park, at the corner of 16th St. and Ruther- 
ford PI, is St. George's P. E. Church, from which the late J. P. 
Morgan was buried. The block from 15th to 16th St. and Ruther- 
ford PI. contains the Friends' Meeting-house and school. This 
sect was organized in 1696. On the south side of 15th St., opposite 
the meeting-house, is the German Masonic Temple. On the east 
side of the park is the Association for the Aid of Crippled Chil- 
dren, near 15th St., and on the corner the New York Infirmary 
for Women and Children. Just east is the Stuyvesant High School 
for boys, with room for 2,300 students. In addition to the aca- 
demic work, there are shops for technical classes. On 15th St., 
west of Livingston Pi., is the home of the Nursing Sisters of the 
Poor. Corner of Second Ave. is the Hebrew Technical Institute 
for Girls, a splendid philanthropic institution, well worth a visit. 
Just south is the Little Mothers' Aid Association, and on the cor- 
ner of 14th St. is the Labor Temple, formerly a Baptist church, 
which has been converted into a public meeting-hall where social, 
political and economic questions are publicly discussed. Admis- 
sion is free, and any one may take part in a discussion. 

Just west of Third Ave. is TAMMANY HALL, the home of 




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King's How to See Nezv York. 101 

the famous political organization. The political party known as 
'J^ammany Hall is really the very big tail wagged by a very small 
dog. In 1789 the Columbian Order was organized to counteract the 
influence of the aristocratic Order of the Cincinnati. The Colum- 
bian Order took the name of a famous Indian Chief Tammany 
and in its ceremonies followed Indian rites; its officers received 
Indian titles and the ordinary members were called braves. It 
was nominally a beneficial order, but it soon began to meddle 
in politics and built up a political organization so perfect that 
even the occasional overwhelming defeat of the party at the polls 
did not disturb it. In the Tammany Hall Building is the Olympic 
Theatre, a burlesque house. Sharkey's saloon opposite, run by 
the prize fighter, is a resort for east side sports. Adjoining it, at 
the corner of Irving PI., is the Academy of Music, the most famous 
opera house in America before the Metropolitan was opened in 
1883. It was first opened in 1854. burnt in 1866 and opened again 
two years later. It now gives stock company plays. 

At No. 109 E. 14th St., near the corner of Fourth Ave., is 
STEINWAY HALL, the warehouse, salesrooms and general 
offices of the piano firm of Steinway & Sons. The white marble 
building was erected in 1866 and, until the early '90s, was the 
most famous concert hall in America. Every famous musical 
artist, instrumental and vocal, every popular conductor and every 
prominent musical organization that appeared in New York dur- 
ing that quarter of a century, appeared in Steinway Hall. Little 
can be added to what is already known of the house of Steinway 
& Sons, the best-known firm of piano manufacturers in the world. 

Nearly opposite Steinway Hall is Liichow's Restaurant, a popu- 
lar German resort. On the same side of the street are several 
amusement places, including the City Theatre, with a seating 
capacity of 3,000. On the corner of Fourth Ave. is the German 
Savings Bank, and on the northeast corner two ordinary saloons, 
facing each other, each occupying a triangle plot, one facing the 
avenue, the other the street. Here is the subway. 

WEST OF FIFTH AVE.— ROUTE. Fourteenth St. Subzvay 

Station to 15th St., to Fifth Ave., to i6th St., to Eleventh] 

Ave., to 20th St., to Tenth Ave., to 23d St., to Sixth Ave., to 

i8th St. Elevated Station. 

^HIS is a retail trade section about Sixth Ave., and part of the 

1 old Greenwich residence section. On 14th St. and Union Sq. we 

pass Keith's Theatre. On 15th St., east of Fifth Ave., at No. 7, is 

the Central Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association, 

with the Margaret Louisa Home directly in the rear, facing on 



102 King's Hoiv to See Nezv York. 

16th St. The scope of the work of the Y. W. C. A. is similar to 
that of the Y. M. C. A., and it has in addition a home for friend- 
less girls. Turn north on Fifth Ave. and west on 16th St. 

The NEW YORK HOSPITAL, just west of the avenue, going 
through to 15th St., is the oldest hospital in New York, char- 
tered in 1771. Before this time the homeless ill were taken to 
the sick ward of the almshouse. The hospital originally occupied 
a building facing Broadway opposite the head of Pearl St. and 
moved to the present building in 1877. A branch called the House 
of Relief is on Hudson St., corner Jay St., and a branch for in- 
sane is the well-known Bloomingdale Asylum, near White Plains, 
N. Y. A Training School for Nurses adjoins the main building. 

Near 6th Ave. is St. Francis Xavier College, adjoining St. 
Francis Xavier R. C. Church, one of the most beautiful Catholic 
churches in the city. The small building at No. 27 is a sub-sta- 
tion of the Edison Company. At the corner of Sixth Ave. is the 
Greenwich Savings Bank. At No. 120 is the N. Y. House and 
School of Industry. West of Seventh Ave., at No. 208, is the 
Sisters of Charity, St. Joseph's Home for the Aged. Passing 



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CHELSEA I'lEIlS. 

Ninth Ave., a block below may be seen the immense works of the 
National Biscuit Company, extending to Tenth Ave, and a great 
addition covering the entire block from Tenth to Eleventh Ave. 

At the foot of the street and extending for nearly a quarter 
of a mile in_ each direction are the CHELSExA. PIERS, nine granite 
steamship piers erected by the citv in 1902 to 1907 at a cost of 
$15,000,000. Each pier is 125 ft. 'wide and from 800 to 853 ft. 
long, with 250 ft. width of water between them. The Cunard Line 
occupies the southerly ones, Nos. 53, 54 and 56, the French Line 
No. 57, the Atlantic Transport No. 58, White Star Nos. 59 and 



King's How to See Nezu York. 103 

60, Red Star No. 61 and the American Line No. 62. Beyond is 
the open square at the foot of 23d St., with the ferries of the 
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Delaware, Lackawanna & West- 
ern and Erie Railroads on the west. 

We turn in at 20th St.,, passing Chelsea Sq. between Ninth 
and Tenth Aves. This square was given to the General Theologi- 
cal Seminary in 1822 by Clement C. Moore, son of Bishop Benja- 
min ]\Ioore and author of the famous little poem, "The Night 
Before Christmas." We turn north at Tenth Ave. to 23d St. 
At 436 W. 22d St., east of Tenth' Ave., is the house occupied by 
Edwin Forrest. The north side of 23d St., from Tenth to Ninth 
Ave., is occupied by a row of pillared buildings, which at the time 
of their erection, in 1845, were considered the finest residences 
in the city. After nearly 70 years they still present an air of 
refinement, though most of them are now tenements or boarding- 
houses. There are a number of quiet, small hotels or board- 
ing-houses on the south side of the street from Eighth to Tenth 
Ave., in buildings that a generation ago were fashionable resi- 
dences. The small building behind an iron fence on the north 
side, east of Ninth Ave., now occupied by the Pasteur Institute, 
was erected by Col. James Fisk for Josie Mansfield. The murder 
of Col. Fisk by his business partner, Edward S. Stokes, on 
account of this woman in January, 1872, and the three trials of 
Stokes formed the most notable criminal case in American history. 

At the northwest corner of Eighth Ave. is the marble front 
Grand Opera House, opened 1808 as Pike's Opera House, It 
was then the most beautiful theatre in the city, and its lobby is 
still one of the finest theatre lobbies in the country. The building 
was owned by Colonel Fisk and Jay Gould, who had the offices 
of the Erie Railroad on the upper floors during tlie period that 
they succeeded in so demoralizing that road that it never recov- 
ered its prestige. The theatre is now a popular-price house, the 
plays being those that have run their course in the high-priced 
houses. At No. 234 is the Jersey Cattle Club. 

On 23d St., west of Seventh Ave., is the 23d St. branch of 
the Y. M. C. A. It also contains the offices of city and State 
executives of the association. Next is a branch of the New 
York Public Library and opposite is the Chelsea Hotel. 

Between Seventh and Sixth Aves. is Proctor's 23d St. Thea- 
tre, and just beyond St. Vincent de Paul R. C. Church. Nearly 
opposite Proctor's Theatre, at No. 146. is J. A. Sierra's art and 
picture store. All of King's publications, as well as a full line of 
souvenirs, postals, engravings, lithographs and other pictures can 
be obtained here. Cameras and camera supplies are kept on hand, 



104 Ki)ig's Hozv to See Nezv York. 

and cameras are rented out for any length of time. Visitors are 
welcome to inspect his stock. 

The building 111-113 W. 23d St. was opened in 1870 with 
Bryant's 2^Iinstrels on the ground floor. In 1874, Koster & Bial 
took charge of it, and for nearly 20 years Koster & Bial's Music 
Hall was the most popular amusement resort in New York. 
Among those who appeared here were Carmencita, Otero, IMadge 
Lessing, Marie Lloyd. 

At the northeast corner of Sixth x-\ve. is the new ^lasonic 
Temple, on the site of the old Masonic Temple. Some of the 
chambers on the upper floors are sumptuously fitted up, especially 
the Commandery and other higher degree rooms. Just beyond 
is the Eden Alusee, with a collection of wax figures, one of the 
remarkable exhibitions in the city. The southeast corner is the 
site of Booth's Theatre, opened in 1869 and closed in 1880, when 
the upward march of theatricals left it out of the theatre district. 
All of the fine department stores which were on this street a few 
years ago have moved to new quarters further uptown, McCreery's, 
formerly on the southeast corner, being the last to leave. 

Turning south along Sixth Ave., we are in the heart of the 
lower shopping district. On the west side of the avenue, from 
:20th to 22d St., are the two large buildings of the O'Neill- Adams 
Company, formed by the consolidation of the two department 
store concerns. The next block is occupied, on the w^est side, by 
Simpson-Crawford Company, another large department store, and 
on the east side by Cammeyer's, at 20th St., and Alexander's, at 
19th St., two of the largest retail shoe stores in the city. On the 
northeast corner of 20th St. is the P. E. Church of the Holy 
Communion, organized in 1867. It has 800 members. 

The block from 18th to 19th St., both sides, is occupied by the 
Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Company, another of the great depart- 
ment-store concerns. Opposite this store, on 18th St., east of 
Sixth Ave., is the main office building and premium station of 
the United Cigar Stores. This part of Sixth Ave. is filled with 
department stores, dry goods stores, clothing stores and other 
retail establishments. The Greenhut Company operates a free 'bus 
line for customers between their stores and the Broadway, Fourth 
Ave. and Third Ave. surface lines and the subway. 

Opposite 18th St. "L" station, on the west side of Sixth Ave., 
is W. T. GRANT COMPANY'S 25C. DEPARTMENT STORE, 
the first and only store of its kind in New York — bright, orange- 
colored front. This store has 27 different departments, with no 
article selling for more than 25c. W. T. Grant Company's stores 
are located throughout the country. 



23cl to 34tk Street 

EAST OF FIFTH AVE.— ROUTE. Tzveiify-third St. Subway 
Station, Fourth Ave., 24th St., Madison Ave, 34th St., Lex- 
ington Ave., 28th St., First Ave., 24th St., Fourth Ave. to 23d 
St. Subzuay Station. 

FOURTH Ave., north of 23d St., is fast becoming a street of 
high office and loft buildings, and lower Madison Ave. is 
just beginning to undergo a similar transformation. 

Going up Fourth Ave., we pass the rear of the METRO- 
POLITAN LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING, and at the south- 
east corner of 24th St. the Ashland Building, on the site of the 
famous Ashland Hotel. The many large buildings seen north- 
ward on Fourth Ave. are loft buildings, all erected since 1909. 
Going west on 24th St., we pass the Aletropolitan Life Insurance 
Company's Annex, containing its printing offices and other offices. 
An interesting view of the pressroom may be had through the 
large windows on the street level. The size of this room, which 
is devoted exclusively to the printing required by the great in- 
surance concern, is a good illustration of its magnitude. On the 
south side of the street, occupying the entire block, is the side of 
the main building. At the Madison Ave. corner we stand under 
its wonderful tower, the main entrance to the building being on 
Madison Ave., nearer 23d St. 

This is one of the most beautiful of the city's great buildings. 
It is of carved white marble, most elegantly finished, and one of 
the most valuable buildings in the world. The main building is 
11 stories high, covering the entire block, while the tower is 52 
stories, 700 ft. above the sidewalk and two stories below the 
street level. It measures 75 by 85 ft. at the base. Electric 
elevators run to the 44th floor of the tower, and a charge of 
50 cts. is made for admission to the observation gallery, which 
is at the 45th floor. The view from this point is well worth the 
charge, for on a fair day one can see 20 miles in all directions. 
To the north and northeast stretch the Hudson and East Rivers, 
and between them ^Manhattan Island, with the roofs of many 
office buildings in the foreground and a little further away the 
trees of Central Park. To the east lies Long Island, and beyond 
it the ocean, while to the southeast, across Brooklyn, can be seen 
the towers of Coney Island. South is the towering mass of 
skyscrapers, and beyond them the bay, with the hills of Staten 
Island in the distance. To the southwest stands Liberty, while 

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west is the Hudson River, lined on both sides with great piers, 
and across the river is New Jersey and the Orange Mountains on 
the horizon. From no other point can so good an idea of the 
geography and general layout of the city and its surround- 
ings be had. 

Entering the building at the main entrance. No. 1 Madison 
Ave., we see the beautifully carved marble foyer with the grand 
staircase leading from the center to the second floor, where are 
the offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the 
greatest industrial insurance corporation. Organized in 1868, it 
has grown to its present greatness under the able presidency of 
John R. Hegeman. 

Back of the stairway and extending to Fourth Ave. is an 
arcade lined with shops, those on the south side extending to 23d 
St. One of the first stores is the YANSS OPTICAL COM- 
PANY, with an entrance on 3 E. 23d St. This concern makes 
a specialty of eyeglasses and spectacles to the exclusion of side 
lines, and hence gives unexcelled service. 

At arcade store No. 12 is the "WATCH SHOP," where all 
kinds of fine watches and jewelry are sold and repaired. Mr. 
R. Klockgiesser, the proprietor, is a native of Switzerland, which 
is famous for its watches, and as he is an expert watchmaker, 
having learned the trade in his youth, any work left with him 
will be well done. 

On the north corner of 24th St. is the Madison Ave. Presby- 
terian Church, made famous by the pastorate of Dr. Parkhurst. 
The present structure, which was one of the last designed by 
Stanford White, was built in 1906, to take the place of one which 
stood on the corner now occupied by the Metropolitan Tower. 
Adjoining are three tall business buildings. On the 25th St. corner 
is the Court House of the Appellate Division of the Supreme 
Court. The building is rich in marbles, sculptured decorations, 
mural paintings and stained glass. The court room when court 
is in session is extremely impressive. 

On the southeast corner of 26th St. is the Manhattan Club, 
the leading Democratic club, and on the northwest corner is the 
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At 
the northeast corner is MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, one 
of the largest amusement halls in America. Erected in 1890 
at a cost of $3,000,000, it contains the largest amphitheatre in 
America, 300 by 200 ft. and 80 ft. high, with the arena 268 by 122 
ft. The tower, surmounted by the gilt figure of Diana which 
acts as a weather vane, is 356 ft. high. The amphitheatre has a 
seating capacity of about 6,000, and on occasions where the arena 



108 King's Hoiv to See Neiv York. 

can be used by the audience standing, from 12,000 to 15,000 can 
be crowded into the building. Here is held the Horse Show, the 
Circus and many other exhilDitions and meetings. . t u 

A. loft building covers the site of the workshop ot John 
Stephanson, the street-car builder, on 27th St., just east of Madi- 
scm Ave. Adjoining it is the P. E. French church, Du St Esprit, 
organized as the Huguenot church in 1628. West of Madison 
Ave is the Broztell. a quiet, first-class hotel. On 28th St west 
of Madison Ave., are the Prince George and Latham Hotels. At 
the southeast corner of 29th St. is the new 17-story Emmet Build- 
ing, an office and loft building on the site of the residence ot Dr. 
Thomas Addis Emmet, a grandson of the Irish patriot, ihomas 
Addis Emmet, the brother of Robert Emmet, who lives on the 

17th floor. Op- 
posite is the 
Hotel Seville. 
The HO- 
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women exclu- 
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29th St., near 
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It is a well- 
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ture, strictly 
fire-proof and 
convenient to 
all transporta- 
tion lines, 
theatres and 
shopping dis- 
trict. It con- 
tains -450 
rooms, single 
and en suite, 
and is equipped 
with every fa- 
cility for the 
comfort of its 

g u e s ts. The 

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and tea room, both of which are located on the main floor of the 
building, are open to gentlemen as well as ladies. The cuisine 
is excellent. 

Near Fifth Ave. is the P. E. Church of the Transfiguration, the 
famous "Little Church Around the Corner." The church on 
Madison Ave. and its rector who refused Mr. Joseph Jefferson's 
request to conduct the funeral services over George Holland, the 
aged actor, are gone and forgotten. The "Little Church Around 
the Corner," to which the rector sent Mr. Jefferson, and the mem- 
ory of its rector, Rev. Dr. Houghton, will never be forgotten by 
the dramatic profession. The building, a quaint, low Gothic 




'LITTLE CHUKCH AROUND THE CORNER. 



structure, with a bit of greensward and a lych gate in front, is 
well worth seeing. On Madison Ave., just above 30th St., is the 
Colony Club, a fashionable club for women. The building, of 
red brick with white trimming, follows the Colonial style of archi- 
tecture. At 31st St. is the Madison Ave. Baptist Church. On 32d 
St.. east of ]\Iadison Ave., at No. 29, is the Grolier Club, an art 
association specializing in books. 

Madison Ave. and 34th St. was, even 10 years ago, the center 
of a fashionable residential section. The Cameron Building, at 
the northeast corner, was the first to break down by law the build- 
ing restriction which prevented the erection of commercial build- 
ings on Madison Ave. north of 34th St., and it is probable that 
other property owners in this vicinity will erect skyscrapers on 
the site of present resid-^nces. On 34th St., west of Madison 
Ave., is the marble front building of Altman's department store. 
Going eastward on 34th St., the Unitarian Church of the Messiah 



110 King's Hozv to See Nezv York. 

is at the corner of Park (Fourth) Ave. On the southwest cor- 
ner, extending to 33d St., is the new ultra-fashionable Vanderbilt 
Hotel. On the block below, Fourth Ave., 32d to 33d St., is the 
Park Ave. Hotel. The building was erected by A. T. Stewart as 
a home for working women, but the rates were so high that 
working women could not afford to stop there, and it was con- 
verted into a first-class hotel. It has a very attractive interior court. 

On the southeast corner of 34th St. and Park Ave. is the 
Armory of the 71st Regiment and the First Signal Corps, also 
headquarters of the First Brigade, N. G., N. Y. The tower is for 
signaling purposes. (The National Guard in New York City 
consists of 7 regiments of Infantry, 1 regiment Engineers, 10 bat- 
teries Field /\rtillery, 1 Coast Artillery Corps divided into 3 
districts, 11 troops of Cavalry, 2 companies of Signal Corps, 1 
Field Hospital and 1 Ambulance Company, the whole numbering 
627 officers and over 10,000 men.) 

We go east to Lexington Ave., then south. At 30th St. is the 
building of the School of Applied Design for Women and on the 
southwest corner the First Moravian Church, established 1748. 
No. 123 Lexington Ave. is a brownstone house, the ground floor 
of which was recently altered. In the parlor of this house 
President Chester A. Arthur took the oath of office as President 
of the United States on September 19, 1881, upon the death of 
President Garfield. The house at the northeast corner of 28th St., 
formerly the residence of William R. Hearst, is on the site of 
the residence of Gen. Horatio Gates, who died here in April, 1806. 
It was purchased in 1913 by W. C. Reeves & Co., one of the lar- 
gest and most successful operators in suburban real estate. They 
have remodeled it and have their offices on the second floor. They 
cater chiefly to workingmen, selling on easy terms and financing 
home building. They also sell investment properties around New 
York. At 26th St. is the Armory of the 69th Regiment, composed 
almost exclusively of Irishmen, with a fine war record. Going 
east on 28th St., we pass St. Stephen's R. C. Church and school. 

At First Ave. is BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, the great public 
hospital of the city, extending from 29th to 26th St. and to the 
river, covering over 11^^ acres. The central portion of the old 
building, facing 27th St., was opened as the Almshouse in 1816, 
and has been used as a hospital since 1826, but is now to be 
torn down to make room for the new buildings as soon as accom- 
modations are provided for its patients. The new buildings, as 
at present planned, will constitute one of the most complete hos- 
pitals. There will be 12 ward pavilions, each seven stories 
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storjes high ; the two additional stories will be used as the chil- 
dren's section. On the roof of each ward pavilion will be an 
open-air ward planned for use in all seasons. All wards are ex- 
posed on three sides, and each has large balcony space directly 
accessible from the ward. The basement will contain storage- 
rooms, mechanical plants and corridors for general traffic of the 
hospital. In addition to the usual wards, there will be special 
preparation for the treatment of criminal, psychopathic and alco- 
holic cases. There will be a special building for isolation cases. 
In all there will be approximately 2.200 beds. The buildings 
already erected are the two pavilion buildings facing the river near 



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NEW BELLEVUE HOSPITAL. 

26th and 29th streets respectively, the boiler-house, laundry build- 
ing and storage building and the Pathological Department and 
Male Dormitory Building on 29th St. and First Ave. The sur- 
gical pavilions are at present in course of erection. The out- 
patients' department and dormitory for female nurses will be 
"rected on the corner of 26th St. and First Ave. The main 
visitors' entrance will be in the center between 26th and 29th 
Sts. on First Ave. The Receiving Department will be on 26th 
St., near the present main entrance. Adjoining the entrance is 
now the Mills' Training School for Male Nurses and directly 
opposite is the Training School for Female Nurses. Opposite 
the entrance is Loomis Laboratory of Cornell University, and 




llutel Biltmuiu Bridge over 42d 8t. Terminal Proper 

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL. New York Central Lines, Park Ave. and 42d St. ■* 
and J,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock were excavated. Ten years were requi 





East 42d St. Office Buildings Grand Central Palace 

I's greatest railway terminal. In its construction were used 85,000 tons of steel, 
) rebuild terminal and yards, witiiout interfering with the enormous traffic. ^^^ 



114 King's Hozi< to Sec Neiv York. 

next is Osborne Hall. Goiiverneur Hospital, at the foot of Gouver- 
neiir St. ; Harlem Hospital, Lenox Ave. between 135th and 136th 
Sts., and Fordham Hospital, on Southern Boulevard, Bronx, are 
allied with and under the same control as Bellevue Hospital. 
There is also a school for the training of midwives. on 2(5th St., 
east of Third Ave. Adjoining the Mills' Training School are 
pavilions A and B of the new Bellevue Hospital, next the 
Morgue, and at the foot of the street is the pier and offices of 
the Commissioner of Public Charities. 

If time permits we can get a pass here to visit the city chari- 
table institutions, comprising the City Hospital and Training 
School, 'Metropolitan Hospital and Training School for Nurses 
and the City Home for the Aged and Infirm, all on Blackwell's 
Island; the Children's Hospital and schools on Randall's Island, 
the hospitals in Brooklyn, the City Farm Colony and Sea View 
Hospital, Borough of Richmond, the morgues in all boroughs 
and the Municipal Lodging House at 432 E. 25th St., Manhattan. 
This has accommodations for 1,000 homeless men and women, 
who are given a bed and breakfast for three days. After that, 
if they have no work or means of support, they are sent to the 
workhouse as vagrants. 

On First Ave., between 27th and 28th Sts., is the Cornell Uni- 
versity ]Medical School, and at the corner of 26th St. and First 
Ave. is the N. Y. University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 
lege, with laboratories on 26th St., east of First Ave. We go 
down First Ave. to 24th St. At the foot of E. 24th St. is a 
recreation pier, and adjoining it, at the 23d St. pier, there is 
usually tied up the floating hotel ship Jacob Stamlers, a philan- 
thropic project established by John Arbuckle. It is intended for 
working people, the rate being 50 cts. a day. A smaller vessel 
accommodates women. Formerly the vessels were towed down 
the harbor every night and towed back early in the morning ; 
now the vessels are permanently tied up. On 24th St., in the 
neighborhood of Third Ave., are the horse markets. 

WEST OF FIFTH AVE.— ROUTE. Tzuenty-third St. Station 
Sixth Ave. Elevated to 24th St., west to Tenth Ave., 34th 
St., Eighth Ave., through Pennsylvania Station to Seventh 
Ave., to 34th St., Aster Court, 33d St., Sixth Ave., 28th St. 
Station Sixth Ave. Elevated. 

ON 24th St., just east of Sixth Ave., is the new IMasonic Tem- 
ple, and opposite it several well-known table d'hote restau- 
rants. West of Seventh Ave., extending through to 25th St., is 
the 12-story building of the National Cloak and Suit Company, 



King's How to See Nezv York. 115 

the first large manufacturing establishment to introduce fire drills 
among the employees. Opposite is the 24th St. entrance of the 
Y. M. C. A. At No. 253 is the Jeanne d'Arc Home for French 
girls, accommodating 125. Between Ninth and Tenth Aves. are 
the Chelsea Cottages, odd little houses built in 1845. It was 
supposed that they resembled the houses in Chelsea, London, 
while the London Terrace behind them, on 23d St., was supposed 
to be an imitation of a fashionable part of London. Going up 
Tenth Ave., we pass Alexander Hamilton Park, 27th to 28th 
Sts., and at 30th St. the early terminal of the Hudson River R. R., 
which later joined the N. Y. Central R. R., to form the N. Y. C. 
& H. R. R. R. It is mainly a freight station, though a few pas- 
senger trains still run from here to Spuyten Duyvil, where they 
join the main line. On the southeast corner of 33d St. is the 
terminal of the American Express Company, and on the north- 
west corner the Hay Exchange. 

Turning east at 34th St., the new 7-story French Hospital is 
midway of the block to Ninth Ave; just beyond is St. Michael's 
R. C. Church, and on the north side is St. Mary's Free Hospital 
for Children. The granite building facing Ninth Ave., extend- 
ing from 33d St. to 34th St., is the N. Y. Institution for the Blind. 
Children eight years old or over are accepted, instructed and 
clothed, and remain here until able to earn their livelihood. 
Grover Cleveland was at one time a teacher in this institution. 
At 34th St., near Eighth Ave., is the Manhattan Opera House, 
erected by Oscar Hammerstein to furnish low-priced yet high- 
class opera in this city, opened December 3, 1906. His venture 
was so successful, and it proved so injurious to the high-priced 
Metropolitan Opera House, that after two years Hammerstein 
was paid a high price to drop grand opera in New York. On the 
corner of Eighth Ave. is the West Side Bank. 

Going down Eighth Ave., there is the new Post Office on the 
west and the Pennsylvania Station on the east, extending from 
31st to 33d St. The new Post Office building, unlike the old 
building in City Hall Park, is to be used solely for Post Office 
purposes. It is a marble structure, 375 ft. long and 335 ft. wide, 
bearing across its facade the legend from Herodotus, "Neither 
snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the 
swift completion of their appointed rounds." Cost, $6,250,000. 

The new Pennsylvania Station has been so often pictured and 
described that little need be said of it. 'It is of Travertine stone, 
788^ ft. long and 430^ ft. wide, covering two city blocks. The 
main concourse is 340 ft. by 210 ft. Length of train platforms, 
21,500 ft., with 21 tracks in the station. The building is assessed 



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PENNSYLVANIA STATION. New Post Office in distance. 

at nearly $20,000,000. The whole work, including tunnels under 
the Hudson and East Rivers, cost over $100,000,000. 

We can enter the station at the middle of the Eighth Ave. front 
and pass through the train concourse, grand waiting-room and up 
the steps to the arcade, where are several fine shops. Occup\'ing 
most of the north side, is the Pennsylvania Station Drug Com- 
pany. This store is of special interest to tourists and visitors 
to the city, as it makes a specialty of souvenirs and novelties 
suitable to carry home as souvenirs from New York and gifts to 
friends. In fact, such a large portion of the store is given over 
to this kind of merchandise that many people call it the "gift 
store." In this store is also the largest and best equipped soda 
fountain in the city, and special attention is given to cleanliness 
and the sanitary arrangement. Emerging at Seventh Ave. and 
32d St., turning north to 34tb St. and eastward, we pass IMacy's 
department store on the north, at the corner of Broadway, and 
the Herald Sq. Hotel, Savoy Theatre, now a moving-picture 
house, and Saks' department store, opposite. We cross Broad- 
way at one of the busiest crossings in the city and pass on the 
east corners Hotel McAlpin, on the south, and the Marbridge 
Building, on the north. Adjoining the Marbridge Building is the 
Monolith Building, built of reinforced concrete, the whole struc- 



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HERALD SQUARE. 

ture forming a solid block of stone. A few doors east is the new 
McCreery's department store. Astor Court is a private thorough- 
fare belonging to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, but open to the 
public. This whole section was, a few years ago, a fashionable 
residential section, but such of the old houses as still remain have 
been converted to business uses. The house No. 33 W. 33d St., 
a few feet west of Astor Court, was, until recently, one of the 
most notorious fashionable gambling houses in the country. 

Recrossing Broadway at 33d St., we go down Sixth Ave., past 
Gimbel Brothers' huge department store, from 33d to 32d St. A 
few years ago this was a disreputable part of the city, with dives 
and brothels running openly on the avenue and in the side streets. 
The Cremorne Mission, on 29th St., covers the site of the Cre- 
morne Gardens, the most gaudy yet vilest resort of its day. The 
low building at the southeast corner of 29th St. and Sixth Ave. 
was the Haymarket, a notorious dance hall for oyer 20 years. 
The section is now being transformed into a business district. 
On 28th St., east of Sixth Ave., is the headquarters of the Vol- 
unteers of America, also the main front of the Fifth Ave. Thea- 
tre. Just below 28th St., on Sixth Ave., is Mouquin's Restau- 
rant, the oldest of the French restaurants. 

Here is the 28th St. station of the Sixth Ave. Elevated line. 



34tli to 42a Street 

EAST OF FIFTH AVE.— ROUTE. Grand Central Subzvay 
Station to Madison Ave., to 35fh St., north on Park Ave., to 
Grand Central Station. (Grand Central Station will be con- 
sidered in the next chapter.) 

OPPOSITE Grand Central Station, at the southeast corner of 
Park Ave., is Grand Union Hotel, a low-priced but popular 
house. At the southwest corner is the Hotel Belmont, 22 stories, 
295 ft. high. Adjoining it on 42d St. is the Lincoln National 
Bank and Safe Deposit Vaults, and next door is the small Hotel 
Athens. At the northwest corner of Madison Ave. is the Man- 
hattan Hotel. Opposite, on 42d ^t, is the new 20-story Madison 
Ave. Building, ^vladison Ave., Park Ave. and side streets between 
42d and 34th Sts. still contain some residences of famous New 
Yorkers, but commercial buildings are encroaching from all sides, 
and Murray Hill, as this section is called, may soon cease to be 
a fashionable residential locality. 

Going down Madison Ave., the Aero Club is on the southeast 
corner of 41st St., and on 41st St. is the Physicians' Building, 
at No. 40, and the Chemists' Club, at No. 52. On the southwest 
corner is the Johns-Manville Building, and at No. 15 E. 41st St. 
is the Political Equality Association. At the northwest corner of 
40th St. are the Anderson Galleries. On 39th St., west of Aladi- 




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son Ave., is the Hotel Touraine. At the northwest corner of 37th 
St. is the residence of Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, on the northeast 
corner that of Mr. Joseph de la Mar, and on the southeast corner 
is the brown-stone residence of J. P. Morgan, adjoining a similar 
building at the o6th St. corner, which was the residence of his 
father, the late J. P. Morgan. Adjoining the latter building, on 
36th St. is his private marble library and art gallery. On the 
northeast corner of 3oth St. is the Church of the Incarnation, and 
on the southeast corner was the residence of the late Morris K. 
Jessup, formerly president of the Museum of Natural History. 

We turn east at 35th St. At the southeast corner of Lexing- 
ton Ave. is the magnificent new fireproof building of the PACK- 
ARD COM- 
MERCIAL 
SCHOOL, 
accommodat- 
ing over 600 
students and 
one of the 
architectural 
ornaments of 
New York. 
This building 
i s absolutely 
modern and 
up to date, and 
contains eve- 
ry device for 
the safety, 
health and 
comfort of 
its students. 
Founded - in 
1858 by S. S. 
Packard, it is 
now the lead- 
ing institution 
of its kind in 
X e w York 
City. The in- 
struction i s 
largely indi- 
vidual, and PACKARD COMMERCIAL SCIIOUL. 
Its courses of Lexiugtou Ave. aud 'doth St. 




120 King's How to See New York. 

study are purely practical, embracing commercial, stenographic 
and secretarial courses, as well as courses in higher accounting 
and auditing. On the northeast corner is the Episcopal Church 
of the Epiphany, and St. Gabriel's Park is between Second and 
First Aves., On Park Ave., Dr. V. P. Gibney lives at No. 16, 
and Dr. F. H. Bosworth at No. 41. At No. 113 E. 36th St., just 
east of Park Ave., was the residence of Admiral Farragut. At 
the northeast corner of 38th St. is the Cornell University Club, 
and from 40th to 41st St. is the ^^lurray Hill Hotel. On the 
opposite side of the street are two skyscrapers, the Architects' 
Building and the Terminal Building. 

Under this section of Fourth Ave. is the tunnel built for the 
N, Y. C. R. R. trains when the station was on the site of the 
present Madison Square Garden. The Fourth Ave. and Aladison 
Ave. cars now use this tunnel, below which is the subway. 

About Park Ave. and 37th St. stood the Murray House, the 
country-seat of Robert Murray, whose wife aided Washington's 
retreat from New York by entertaining the British officers. As 
the story goes, the British landed at Kip's Bay, about E. 35th 
St.,' on the morning of Sept. 15, 1776, while Putnam, with 4,000 
men, was in the lower part of the city. The officers stopped at 
the Murray House and were so handsomely entertained that they 
halted their troops and remained there all afternoon, while Put- 
nam marched his troops along the Hudson River and joined 
Washington's forces in Harlem before the British started in pur- 
suit. Her action saved Putnam's army. 

On 42d St. the Grand Central Terminal, including the office 
buildings, will extend to Lexington Ave. On the southwest cor- 
ner is the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, and opposite it, on the 
avenue, is the Murray Hill Theatre, a burlesque house. Near 
Third Ave, is St. Bartholomew's Parish House, including a dis- 
pensary, local bureau and clubs for men and women maintained 
by St. Bartholomew's Church. Between First and Second Aves. 
is the new building of the Hospital of the New York Society for 
the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled. 

WEST OF FIFTH AVE.— ROUTE. Grand Central Subway, 
42d St. to Eighth Ave., to 39th St., Seventh Ave., 35th St., 
Sixth Ave., 40th St., Subway. 

GOING west on 42d St., at Fifth Ave., is the Library, and back 
of it is Bryant Park, the site of the Crystal Palace, named 
in memory of Wm. Cullen Bryant, whose statue stands under the 
small dome in the rear of the Library. In front of this statue 
is a fountain in memory of Josephine Shaw Lowell. A bust of 



King's How to See Nezc York. 121 

Washington Irving is at the center of the 40th St, side of the 
park, and a statue of J. Marion Sims, surgeon and philanthropist, 
standing near 42d St. and Sixth Ave., complete the interesting 
things in this park. Opposite is the new /Eolian Hall, containing 
salesrooms, concert hall and offices. Adjoining this is Stern 
Bros.' new department store, and at the corner of Sixth Ave. is 
the Bryant Park Building, containing the Fleischman Baths. 

At Broadway we are in the heart of gay New York. This is 
the theatrical, sporting and hotel center, with the Great White Way 
stretching north and south, and lesser White Ways radiating to 
both sides. We cross Broadway, passing the Knickerbocker Hotel 
and Longacre Building on the east corners, Heidelberg and Times 
Buildings on the west corners, and cross Seventh Avenue, with 
the Hermitage Hotel a few feet south of 42d St. 

Forty-second St., from Seventh to Eighth Ave., is the greatest 
theatrical thoroughfare in the world, having no less than eight thea- 
tres on the one block. On the south side are the New Amster- 
dam, with the Aerial Gardens on the roof; next is Murray's 
Restaurant, then the Candler Building and the Liberty, Eltinge, 
Harris and American Theatres, the last a vaudeville house with 
a roof garden. On the north side are Hammerstein's Victoria, 
a vaudeville house with a roof garden, the Republic and the Lyric 
Theatres. St. Luke's German Evangelical Church is nearer Eighth 
Ave. Most of the theatres on this street are large structures, run- 
ning through to the next street, though their 42d St. entrances are 
comparatively small. 

We go down Eighth Ave., past Franklin Savings Bank on the 
corner of 42d St., to 39th St., then east past the 39th St. Building, 
with a branch Post Office on the ground floor and several large 
publishers above. Next to it is a similar building of the American 
Press Association, and opposite is the building of the Pictorial 
Reviezv. The Roman Catholic orphan asvlum of St. Vincent de 
Paul and St. Chrysostom's Chapel of Trinity Parish occupy the 
remainder of the north side of the block to Seventh Ave. The 
former, incorporated in 1868. receives children four years old or 
over. It has 180 inmates. St. Chrysostom's Chapel, also estab- 
lished in 1868, has 700 members. On the east side of the avenue, 
from 39th to 40th St., is the rear of the Metropolitan Opera 
House. 

On the corner of Seventh Ave., at 38th St., is the NAVARRE 
HOTEL, most conveniently located, 300 ft. from Broadway. 
Constructed in the French Renaissance style of architecture, it 
is one of the handsomest structures of its kind, not only in this 
countrv, but in the world. It is built and maintained strictly 




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King's How to See Nezv York. 123 

fire-proof throughout, with its ten stately stories of steel construc- 
tion, stone and brick walls, red-tiled roof and marble mosaic and 
terrazzo floors. Among many hostelries of a great city, the 
Navarre stands unique in this respect. It truly offers the maxi- 
mum of comfort and luxury at minimum cost. Its richness and 
high-class appointments, while affording all that is attainable as 
to the substantial and elegant in hotel service, are to be enjoyed 
at rates reasonable beyond ordinary expectations. 

On '37th St., west, is the home of the McCall Patterns. At 36th 
St. is the Hotel York, and on the opposite corner is Alills Hotel 
No. 3. At 35th St. is the old New York State Arsenal and head- 
quarters of the Adjutant-General. Here are kept the quartermas- 
ter supplies for all the National Guard organizations of New 
York City. 

We go east on 35th St., past Macy's and Herald Sq. Theatre, 
cross Broadway past the N. Y. Herald Building, to Sixth Ave.- 
On 35th St., east of Sixth Ave., is the Garrick Theatre, and fur- 
ther east is Moretti's Restaurant and the Collingwood and Gre- 
gorian Hotels. 

On 38th St., west of Sixth Ave., is Maxim's, and on the next 
block is Bustanoby's Restaurant. On the opposite side of the 
street are the J\laxine Elliott Theatre and the 39th St. Theatre, 
two small but beautiful playhouses. At No. 29 W. 39th St. is the 
United Engineering Societies Building, given by Andrew Carnegie 
to the several engineering societies. Here are the offices of Ameri- 
can Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Institute of 
Mining Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
and smaller societies. This building also contains a fine engineer- 
ing library and the American Museum of Safety, exhibiting vari- 
ous safety appliances. Admission free. Open 9 to 5, except Sun- 
days. At No. 43 is the headquarters of the Republican State Com- 
mittee. At the corner of 40th St. is the granite building of the 
Union Dime Savintrs Bank. West of Sixth Ave. are several sky- 
scrapers. In the Tilden Building, at No. 105, are the rooms of the 
City History Club. Around the corner, on 41st St., is the Comedy 
Theatre. On the southeast corner of 40th St. and Sixth Ave. is 
the new Parisian Restaurant, on the site of the ill-fated Hotel 
Royal. Going eastAvard on 40th St.. we pass, at No. 54, the 
Republican Club, organized 1879 and now having over 1,700 mem- 
bers ; at No. 32 the Engineers' Club, organized 1888, its member- 
ship limit of 2.000 men in engineering and allied professions being 
full; and at No. 20 the New York Club, a social organization 
founded 1845 and now having 675 resident and non-resident mem- 
bers. We return from here to the Grand Central subway station. 



42a to 59tli Street 

EAST OF FIFTH AVE.— ROUTE. Grand Central Subway Sta- 
tion, Lexington Ave., 57th St., Second Ave., 59th St., Madison 
Ave., 43d St. to Grand Central Subzvay Station. 
T^HE GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL is the largest and most 
1 beautiful and costly railroad terminal in the world. The plan, 
embracing, as it does, not only the station buildings, but a series 
of commercial buildings, hotels, Y. M. C. A., office and store 
buildings from 42d St. to 50th St., between Lexington and Madi- 
son Ave., with approaches extending to 57th St., the whole cov- 
ering an area of 79 acres, establishes a magnificent civic center in 
the heart of New York, The main terminal building proper, 
facing Park Ave., is 310 by 672 ft. on the street level and 455 by 
745 ft. below. It rises 150 ft. above the street and the lowest 
level is 45 ft. below. The concourse, 120 by 300 ft., for accom- 
modating 10,000 persons and the spacious waiting-room are on 
a, level with the express train platforms and are reached by 
gently sloping approaches. Below this level is one for suburban 
trains, likewise reached by sloping planes. The upper level has 43 
tracks, the lower has 25. The total trackage length is 33^/4 
miles; total capacity of the station, 200 trains and 70,000 passen- 
gers an hour. An elevated driveway will run from Park Ave., at 
40th St., over 42d St. and around the station at the gallery level 
to Park Ave., to 45fh St. The beautiful new Liggett's Drug Store, 
located on the 42d St. front of the Grand Central Terminal, is 
recognized as the largest and finest in the world, occupying over 
8,500 sq. ft. of space, without an interior post or pillar to obstruct 
the vision. Within the store there are more than 300 ft. of plate 
glass show cases, lighted from within, which greatly enhance the 
beauty of the elegant display of perfumes, candies, etc. The thirst 
of business commuters and shoppers is daily quenched by the 
three mammoth soda fountains in this great drug store. The 
Louis K. Liggett Company also operates a beautiful drug store in 
the Hotel McAlpin, and the finest uptown store in New York 
City, at the corner of 125th St. and Seventh Ave. In addition the 
Liggett Company also operates large metropolitan drug stores in 
Boston, Baltimore, Bufifalo, Detroit, Columbus, Syracuse, Bing- 
hamton, Brockton, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Lowell. New- 
port, Pawtucket, Paterson, Providence, Salem, Toronto, Troy and 
Worcester. On Lexington Ave., east of the station, is a general 
office building, for railroads using the terminal, from 43d to 45th St. 
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On 43d St., just east of the avenue, is St. Agnes R. C. Church, and 
behind it, on 44th St., is the parochial school. On the block from 46th 
to 47th St. is the Grand Central Palace. It has one of the largest 
exhibition halls in the city and has halls for meetings, offices, the 
Furniture Board of Trade, etc. North of this are the buildings, 
of the Adams Express Co. On 50th St., west of Lexington Ave., 
is the power-house. At the corner of 49th St. and Lexington Ave. 
is the 8-story Bible Teachers Training School. The block from 
50th to 51st St. was formerly occupied by the Nursery and Child's 
Hospital. Part of this site will be used for Hammerstein's new 
Opera House. At the corner of 52d St. is the fine new headquar- 
ters of the Young Women's Christian Association, and opposite 
the Swedish M. E. Church. At No. 106 E. 52d St. is the Woman's 
University Club Building. The synagogue at 55th St., with high 
towers, ending in large ball cupolas, belongs to the Congregation 
Shaar Hashomayim. Its former rabbi was the famous Jewish 
theologian Alexander Kohut. The Babies' Hospital is at 55th St. 

We turn east on 57th St. and pass the Yorkville Police Court, 
near Third Ave., Adolph Philipp's little German Theatre (seating- 
300), just east of Third Ave., and, near Second Ave., the N. Y. 
Throat, Nose and Lung Hospital. Going north at Second Ave., 
we reach the entrance to Queensboro Bridge at 59th St. The dis- 
tance across is nearly a mile and a half, but a fine view of the 
surroundings can be obtained from the foot walk at the pier on 
the Manhattan side of the river. 

Going west on 59th St., we pass the Flower Memorial House 
and Day Nursery of St. Thomas Chapel at No. 220, the headquar- 
ters of the Exempt Firemen's Association, an organization con- 
sisting of men who served in the Volunteer Fire Department 
which went out of existence in 1865. The building contains many 
relics of the old department. Open free to visitors. The north 
side of the block, east of Third Ave., is occupied by Bloomingdale 
Brothers' department store. On the opposite side of the street is 
the rear of Terrace Garden, a popular German resort, with meet- 
ing halls, ball room, restaurant and open-air summer garden.. 
The main building fronts on 58th St. Opposite is Proctor's 58th 
St. Theatre. On 59th St., just west of Lexington Ave., is the 
N. Y. Orthopaedic Hospital and Dispensary, and on the north of 
the same block, near Park Ave., is the newly opened LIGHT 
HOUSE of the N. Y. Association for the Blind, a home for the 
blind. Visitors are welcome. On the southeast corner of 59th 
St. and Park Ave. is the Arion, the leading German singing 
society, organized in 1854. There are over 60 German musical 
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organizations own their buildings and are in fact social clubs, the 
musical feature being incidental and secondary. On 58th St., east 
of Park Ave., is the Liederkranz, another German musical and 
singing society. 

On the southwest corner of 59th St. and Park Ave. is the hall of 
the BOARD OF EDUCATION. The board consists of 46 members 
who serve without pay. They have complete control of the public 
school system, which includes 3 training schools for teachers, 23 
high schools (1 commercial and 2 manual training), 502 elemen- 
tary schools, 2 truant schools, 1 parental school and 2 vocational 
schools (1 for boys and 1 for girls). Many of the public schools 
have kindergartens. There are also a school for the deaf and 
classes for deaf, blind, cripples, anaemic and tuberculous children 
and children suffering from speech impediments. The public 
school system includes evening schools, high, trade and elemen- 
tary, for both sexes (for those employed during the day), vaca- 
tion schools, vacation playgrounds, open-air and roof-garden 
playgrounds, playgrounds for mothers and babies, evening recrea- 
tion centers and athletic fields. In some of the school buildings 
there are shower baths. During the fall, winter and spring, pub- 
lic free lectures are given in many school buildings and other 
assembly rooms. The total school register is about 53,000 in high 
and training schools, and 706,000 in elementary schools. There 
are about 1,900 teachers in high and training schools and over 
17,500 principals and teachers in elementary schools. The cost 
of maintaining the public schools for 1912 was $35,206,846.96. The 
Normal College (for girls) is under the control of a Board of 
Trustees, consisting of the members of the Board of Education 
and the president of the College. The College of the City of New 
York (for boys) is controlled by a separate Board of Trustees. 

At the corner of Madison Ave. is the Plaza Theatre. At the 
corner of Madison Ave. and 58th St. is the Sydenham Building, 
formerly the fashionable Madison Ave. Hotel, now occupied 
entirely by physicians' offices. A few doors west is the Riding 
Club. Many fashionable residences still remain on E. 57th St., 
from Lexington to Seventh Ave., but trade is invading the street, 
and it will soon be a commercial street. At the corner of 57th 
St. and Madison Ave. is the Madison Ave. Reformed Church. At 
the corner of 56th St. is the Essex, a quiet, fashionable hotel. 
At No. 53 E. 56th St. is the Church Club. At 55th St. is the First 
Reformed Episcopal Church. The west side of the block, from 
50th to 51st St., is occupied by St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Cardi- 
nal's residence and office. The red brick building on the block 
above was formerly part of the R. C. Orphan Asylum. It is now 



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used for R. C. church work. Opposite the rear of the Cathedral 
is the triple residential mansion formerly occupied by Henry Vil- 
lard and Whitelaw Reid. The center und the two corners are 
separate buildings, the whole being designed after a Florentine 
palace. The new ultra-fashionable Ritz-Carleton Hotel, which is 
conducted in the same style as its London namesake, is on the 
block from 46th to 47th St. The east side, from 48th St. south to 
43d St., is part of the new Grand Central Terminal. The Rail- 
road Y. M. C. A. is at the northeast corner of 45th St., and the 
Tiffany Studios are on the southeast corner. A huge 20-story 
hotel, the Biltmore, on the block from 44th to 43d St., is part of 
the Terminal group of buildings. On the southwest corner of 
44th St. is St. Bartholomew's P. E. Church, embellished with 
figures over and between the doors. 

WEST OF FIFTH AVE.— ROUTE. Grand Central Suhzvay 
Station to Eighth Ave., 44th St. to Fifth Ave., to 45th St., 
to Seventh Ave., to 46th St., to Sixth Ave., to Seventh Ave., 
to 50th St., to Ninth Ave., to 57th St., to Tenth Ave., to SQ^h 
St., to Sixth Ave., to 57th St., to Eighth Ave., to 54th St., 
to Sixth Ave., to 50th St. 

THIS square mile contains more large hotels, theatres and 
prominent clubs than the rest of Manhattan Island, and to 
cover it effectually it would be necessary to go through the streets 
— up one street and down the next, walking several miles. The 
route laid out will pass the most important and interesting places. 
Going down 43d St., west of Fifth Ave., we pass the Century 
Association at No. 7. The main building, a palatial edifice, four 
stories high, covers a lot 100 by 50 ft., while the picture gallery 
takes up a same sized lot in the rear. The club, which was 
organized in 1847, is a social organization in which the literary 
and artistic elements predominate. Its membership limit of 1,000 
has long been reached and it has a long waiting list. Opposite is 
the Hotel Renaissance. At No. 17 is the Academy of Medicine. 
This is not a club house, but a building devoted entirely to scien- 
tific purposes. It contains the library of the Academy of Medi- 
cine, open free to the public from 10 to 12 A. M. At No. 27 is 
the Racquet and Tennis Club, the building going through to _ 44th 
St., a social athletic organization, with a membership limit of 
1,100, which has long been reached. Opposite is .'Eolian Hall and 
Stern Bros.' department store, extending to Sixth Ave. At No. 
43 is the Bar Association, and at No. 47 the Hotel Royalton, both 
buildings extending through the block. Just beyond is the HIP- 
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King's How to See Nezv York. 129 

capacity of 5,200. The plays are given upon so large a scale that 
no other theatre can accommodate them, several hundred people 
being often on the stage at one time. Opposite the Hippodrome, 
on Sixth Ave., is Jack's Restaurant. West of Sixth Ave., on the 
south side of the street, is the million dollar club house of the 
Elks. Opposite is the Army and Navy Club, at No. 107, the 
Woodstock at No. 127, and a little nearer Broadway the deserted 
Metropole Hotel, later Miller's Hotel, in front of which the 
gambler Rosenthal was shot; a mass of police corruption was 
thereby uncovered. At the Broadway corner is Cohan's Theatre, 
opposite the Wallick Hotel. West of Seventh Ave. is the new 
Times Sq. Hotel, and on the north side of the block is the Times 
Annex, in which the mechanical work of the A''. Y. Times is done. 
Adjoining the hotel are the rear entrances to the Republic and 
Lyric Theatres. 

We go to Eighth Ave., then to 44th St. and eastward. ' At 
No. 238 W. 44th St. is the pretty little playhouse called The 
Little Theatre, with the new Shubert Theatre opposite. At No. 
216 is the 44th St. Music Hall, opposite the Hotel Astor. On 
the block between Broadway and Sixth Ave. are Hudson Thea- 
tre, at No. 139, Gerard Hotel at No. 123, Belasco Theatre at No. 
115, and Fellowship Club at No. 107. On the south side of the 
street are Alpha Delta Phi Club, at No. 136, and at No. 128 the 
Lambs' Club, composed almost exclusively of men connected with 
the dramatic profession. 

On the block between Sixth and Fifth Aves. most of the 
buildings are club houses. On the north side are the Algonquin 
Hotel, at No. 59, and Iroquois Hotel, at No. 49. The Graduates' 
and Rocky Mountain Clubs are housed in the City Club Building, 
No. 55. The New York Yacht Club has an elaborately carved marble 
front building at No. 37 ; the Harvard Club is at No. 27, adjoining 
Berkeley Lyceum, which holds several clubs, and the Berkeley 
Theatre, besides halls for dancing, theatricals, etc. At No. 7 
is the St. Nicholas, a social club, with membership limited to 300, 
who must be descended from a resident of the city prior to 1785. 
Almost every name on its membership roll recalls Dutch or Brit- 
ish officials or Revolutionary officers. On the south side of the 
street there are the Brown Universitv Club in the Hotel Royalton, 
at No. 44 ; the Bar Association, with a magnificent building at 
No. 42 ; the Phi Gamma Delta, at No. 34 : Yale Club, at No. 30, 
and the large building of the Society of Mechanics and Trades- 
men, at No. 20. This society was founded in 1785 and modeled 
after the early European guilds. It was originally a mutual bene- 
fit society, but it branched out, founded the Mechanics' Bank, a 



130 King's How to See Nezv York. 

Mechanics' School and a library, which has now 110,000 volumes 
open to the public. This was until the founding of the free cir- 
culating library, now part of the public library, the largest free 
circulating library in the city. The society has technical classes 
and furnishes 12 free scholarships in the New York Trade Schools. 
At No. 12 is the Dartmouth Club. 

We go up Fifth Ave to 45th St., then west. On the south 
side is the Fencers' Club, in the business building at No. 6, 
Hotel Webster at No. 40, Seymour next, and the Musicians' Club 
in the large building at No. 62 ; opposite is the Schuyler, at No. 
59. On the next block is the Friars' Club at No. 107, St. James 
Hotel at No. 109, Belmont Hotel at No. 116, the Tokio, a show 
restaurant, at No. 145 and the Lyceum Theatre at No. 149. The 
next block has nothing of special interest except the Booth 
Theatre, adjoining Hotel Astor. We go up Broadway to 46th St. 
Just west of Broadway is the side entrance of the Gaiety Thea- 
tre, and then the Fulton Theatre. Opposite is the Globe Theatre. 
At No. 219 is the building and main office of J. H. Remick & Co., 
music publishers, and at No. 1343 Broadway is their retail store, 
filled with music and souvenirs. At No. 229 is the club house of 
the White Rats, an association of vaudeville performers. East 
of Seventh Ave. is the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 
midway of the block to Sixth Ave. and extending throu.gh to 47th 
St. East of Sixth Ave. is the Patterson, at No. 59. 

At No. 31 is the Scotch Tea Room, a delightful little place 
where good meals can be obtained without the show-place acces- 
sories and without paying the show-place high prices. 

Turning north at Sixth Ave. to 47th St., then west, we pass 
some large hotels, including the Flanders, King Edward, Somer- 
set and Longacre. At No. 139 is the Green Room Club, and at 
No. 165 the Screen Club, an association of motion-picture actors, 
writers, managers and others, the only club of its kind in Amer- 
ica. We turn north on Seventh Ave. On 48th St., east of the 
avenue, are the 48th St. Theatre, Brady's Playhouse and the Cort 
Theatre. West of Broadway is the Longacre Theatre. On 49th 
St., east of Seventh Ave., are several large hotels, the Mary- 
land, Bristol and Van Cortlandt. We turn west on 50th St. On 
the corner is the Garden Restaurant and opposite the Winter 
Garden, with main entrance on Broadway. Near Ninth Ave. is 
the new Polyclinic Hospital, with the private pavilion in the rear 
facing 51st St. We go west on 57th St. to Tenth Ave. At No. 
524 is the main office of the SHEFFIELD FARMS-SLAWSON 
DECKER COMPANY, the largest milk company in the United 
States. Visitors are welcome and will find here a most interesting 












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example of how 
the New York City 
milk supply is 
safeguarded. The 
great bulk of the 
milk is pasteur- 
ized, that is, heat- 
ed to 145 degrees 
for 20 minutes and 
then cooled in a 
large, specially 
constructed room 
which can be en- 
tirely sterilized. 
From here it goes 
to the bottling- 
room, where the 
bottles pass over 
a wonderful spiral 
roll-away, after 
b e i n g filled and 
capped by special 
machinery, to the 
wagons. 

On Tenth Aye., 
between 58th and 
59th Sts., is the 
new DeWitt Clin- 
ton High School 
for boys, seating 
3,500 students. 
This is one of the 
most attractive 
school houses in 
the city. Westward on 59th St., at the river front, is the great 
power-house, where all the energy for operating the whole subway 
system is generated. On Tenth Ave. (here called Amsterdam 
Ave.) and taking half of the block between Ninth and Tenth Ayes., 
between 59th and 60th Sts., is a group of red brick buildmgs 
comprising the College of Physicians and Surgeons, on 59th St., 
the Sloane Maternity Hospital on the corner of 59th St. and 
Tenth Aye., and the Vanderbilt Clinic (dispensary) at the 60th 
St. corner. The buildings were donated by members of the 
Vanderbilt family to the Medical School. On the corner above 




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is the N. Y. Nursery and Child's Hospital, including maternity 
hospital, kindergarten and training school. On the south side 
of 59th St. is ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, occupying the whole 
block. This, like all the semi-public hospitals, has private wards 
and beds, but most are free. A notable addition to the hospital 
is the Syms Operating Pavilion, near the Ninth Ave. corner. At 
the corner of 60th St. and Columbus Ave. is the large Roman 
Catholic Church of the Paulist Lathers, with its printing office 
and parochial school in the rear on 60th St. This is one of the 
largest church buildings in the city. 

Going east on 59th St., we pass Dr. Savage's Gymnastic Insti- 
tute, near Columbus Circle. On the circle, south of 59th St., is 
the Park Theatre, and at Eighth Ave. is Pabst's Grand Circle 
Cafe and Restaurant. Reisenweber's Restaurant is on Eighth 
Ave., at 58th St. The Columbus Column and Maine Memorial 
in the circle are described in Chapter 17. 

The block from Broadway to Seventh Ave. is occupied by 
private residences and fashionable apartment houses, including 
the new Gainsboro Studio Building. 

At 7th Ave. is the group of buildings known as the Navarro 
Flats. East of 7th Ave. is the Catholic Club, at No. 120, the 
Deutscher Verein (German Club) at No. 112, and De La Salle 
Institute for boys at No. 108. On the east corner of Sixth Ave. is 
the famous N. Y. Athletic Club, the oldest and wealthiest athletic 
organization in America. The building itself is said to be the 
finest building of its kind in the world, furnishing, besides the 
usual fashionable club conveniences, a gymnasium, boxing-room, 
fencing-room, swimming tank, running track and whatever else 
can be applied to indoor sports. For its outdoor sports and meets 
it has Travers Island in New Rochelle Harbor. Here is a club 
house, athletic track, baseball grounds and boat house. The 
membership is limited to 3,500. 

We go down Sixth Ave. to 57th St. This street was a few 
years ago one of the exclusive fashionable residential streets, but 
trade is already invading it and destroying its residential char- 
acter. West of Sixth Ave, at No. 110, is the Lotos Club, organ- 
ized in 1870 to promote social intercourse among journalists, 
artists and members of the musical and dramatic professions, and 
celebrated for its art exhibitions and its receptions to men noted 
in literature and the fine arts; its membership limit of 600 is 
filled and there is a long waiting list. Just below the Lotos Club 
are the Great Northern Hotel and the St. Hubert, a typical high- 
class apartment hotel. Hotels of this character cater to perma- 
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street is the new home of the Freundschaft Society, finished in 
1914, and the Calvary Baptist Church. 

■At the corner of 'Seventh 'Ave. is Carnegie Hall, erected in 
1891 by Andrew Carnegie at a cost of $1,250,000. It contains one 
of the finest concert halls in the world, with seats for 3,000 and 
standing room for 1,000 more. A smaller concert hall, called 
Carnegie Lyceum, adjoins the other on the Seventh Ave. side. 
The larger hall is used for concerts, lectures, conventions and 
meetings. The building also contains offices, studios and school- 
rooms and the rooms of several clubs. One of these is the 
]\Ianhattan Chess Club, the leading organization of its kind in 
America. Here the best chess players from all over the world 
make their headquarters when visiting New York. On the north- 
west corner is the Osborne, another large apartment hotel, and 
other hotels of the same character and high-class apartment 
houses are scattered throughout the vicinity. 

At 215 W. 57th St. is the magnificent building of the Ameri- 
can Fine Arts Society, occupied by the Society of American 
Artists, Architectural League and the Art Students' League. The 
building contains temporary and permanent exhibition galleries, 
classrooms, offices, meeting-rooms, etc. Opposite is the Central 
Presb3^terian Church, and adjoining it, at No. 220, is the Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers. West of Fighth Ave. is the WEST 
SIDE BRANCH of the Y. M. C. A., the building running through 
to 57th St. The building contains a large dormitory, and in addi- 
tion to the usual features an employment bureau and automobile 
school. Just beyond is the P. E. Church of Zion and St. Timothy, 
On the north side of the street, nearer Eighth Ave., is the Deems 
Memorial Church of the Strangers (undenominational). Going 
down Eighth Ave., we pass, below 56th St., the Parisien, a large 
French restaurant. On 54th St., just west of Eighth Ave., is a 
Greek Church, formerly the Amity Baptist Church, built in 1832, 
adjoining a Municipal and Magistrates Court. The balance of the 
block to Ninth Ave. is taken up by the street-car barns. Going 
east on 54th St., we pass the building of the Automobile Club of 
America, at No. 247. Near Sixth Ave. is the French branch 
of the Y. M. C. A., and at No. 48, east of Sijcth Ave., is the City 
Athletic Club. On 53d St.. west of Sixth Ave., is the Clef Club. 
There is little of interest on this part of Sixth Ave. The blocks 
east of Sixth Ave. are for the most part occupied by fashionable 
residences. On 49th St., just east of Sixth Ave., is the Haw- 
thorne Hotel. On 48th St., at No. 36, is the residence of Henry 
W. Taft, brother of ex-President Taft. We pass down Sixth 
Ave., and at 42d St. return to the subway. 



59tli to llOtk Street, East 

ROUTE. Fifty-ninth St., Third Ave. "L" Station to 6oth St., to 
Ave. A, to 75th St., to East River, to 88th St., Second Ave., 
86th St. to Lexington Ave., to 60th St., to Madison Ave., to 
iioth St., to "L" or Subway. 

THIS is a residential section, exhibiting the different social 
strata beginning with the fashionable at Fifth and Madison 
Aves., going down, as we go eastward, to the very poor and lowly 
about Ave. A and the waterfront. This is well seen by walking 
through 72d or 79th St., from Central Park eastward. Going 
east on 60th St., we pass suddenly from a street of private resi- 
dences to a tenement district at Second Ave. Here is the entrance 
to Queensboro Bridge. In the arches under the bridge is a mar- 
ket. At No. 337 E. 60th .St. is the white brick building of the 
Manhattan Maternity Hospital. At Ave. A, just south of the 
bridge, is the power-house supplying the bridge with light. North 
of the bridge, between 60th and 61st Sts., are two old houses, once 
country homes when the whole East River front was occupied by 
the country homes and estates of wealthy New Yorkers. Im- 
mense gas tanks are on the two blocks from 61st to 63d St. On 
61st St., behind the gas tank, is one of the most interesting 
houses in this part of the city. It is a twin building of stone, 
erected in 1770 by Col. S. S. Smith, who later became the son- 
in-law of President John Adams. Owing to its size and the 
almost inaccessible location at the time of its erection, it was 
known as "Smith's Folly." In the early '30s it was a road house, 
and is said to have been lost by the owner in a game of cards. 
It is the oldest house on Manhattan Island north of City Hall. 

On the block from 63d to 64th St. is the Hbmeopathic Medi- 
cal College and Flower Hospital, the largest homeopathic medical 
school and hospital in America. The hospital has 140 beds. 

On the east side of the street, from 64th to 65th St., is the 
celebrated ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL 
RESEARCH, with the hospital adjoining and surrounded by well- 
kept grounds. Part of the ground in front of the building is 
used as a children's garden. The land, buildings and a fund for 
its maintenance were given by John D. Rockefeller and put in 
charge of a body of eminent medical investigators. The workers 
here include Flexner, Meltzer, Carrell, Nagutchi, Janeway, Loeb 
and other celebrated scientists. 

On 67th St. and First Ave. is the N. Y. Trade School. Going 

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north on Ave. A, we pass a Bohemian and Slavonic district, 
with the Bohemian National Hall on 73d St., west of First Ave. 
We turn down 75th St. to the waterfront, passing the immense 
power-house which supplies the Elevated lines. Turning north, 
the East Side Settlement House is at 76th St. From 76th to 78th 
St. is John Jay Park, at the waterfront, surrounded on the west 
and north by a group of the largest and finest working men's 
apartment houses in the world. On 76th St., west of the park, 
are the public baths, at 77th St. the John Jay Apartments, on 
the block from 77th to 78th St. are the East River Homes, 
erected by the bounty of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, especially for 
families in which there is tuberculosis, and on the block from 78th 
to 79th St. is the group erected by the City and Suburban Homes 
Company. This company is really a philanthropic association, 
but in no sense a charity. Its houses are built primarily to fur- 
nish cheap apartments for working people, furnishing at the 
same time everything that would conduce to health, comfort and 
the aesthetic sense of the tenants. An interesting architectural fea- 
ture in these houses surrounding the park are the open stairways, 
constructed in recesses in the buildings around small courts. 
Though off the usual sightseer's routes in this city, they are well 
worth a visit. Continuing north along the waterfront, we reach,- 
at 86th St., Carl Schurz Park, beautifullv located opposite the 
upper end of Blackwell's Island and overlooking Hell Gate. A 
large frame house in the upper part of the park, now used as a 
comfort house and park offices, was erected about 1800 as the 
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137 



1826. We go west on 88th St. As we cross Ave. A, we see, at 
89th St., St. Joseph's Asylum for orphans and homeless chil- 
dren, and at 90th St. the House of the Good Shepherd, a R. C. 
reformatory for women. Between First and Second Aves. is the 
Holy Trinity Chapel and church houses, an elaborate group of 
buildings erected by the Rhinelander family. 

We go south on Second Ave. to 86th St., then west. Near 
Third Ave. is the large Yorkville Casino, a meeting and amuse- 
ment place, erected by the Musical Protective Union. At Third 
Ave. is Loew's Orpheum Theatre, and on the next block the 
Yorkville and a few smaller playhouses, the club house of the 
Aschenbrodel-Verein, a German musical and singing society, and 
the east side branch of the Y. M. C. A. At Lexington Ave. is 
First Union Presbyterian Church. 

We can now take the Lexington Ave. car to 60th St., passing 
on the northwest corner of 82d St. the Richardson "Spite House,'" 
built on a lot 100 ft. long and eight ft. wide. On the northeast 
corner of 81st St. is the Convent of Nursing Sisters of Bon 
Secours, corner 79th St. is the Villa Maria Academy for girls 
and at the southwest corner of 77th St. is the German Hos- 
pital. The hospital proper covers the block and fronts on 77th 
St. At the corner of 76th St. and Park Ave. is the German Dis- 
pensary, and at the Lexington Ave. side is the Training School 
for nurses. On 
the east side of 
Lexington Ave.. 
at 77th St., is 
St. Ann's Acad- 
emy for bovs, 
and at 76th St. 
is the magnifi- 
cent marble R. 
C. Church of St. 
Jean de Bap- 
itiste, replacing 
a small brick 
building on the 
opposite side of 
the street. The 
parochial 
school, a marble 
building, ad- 
joins the church 
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At 72d St. is the Bikur Cholim Synagogue, and a few doors 
east is the Greek Cathohc Church. On the northeast corner is the 
Hotel Lorenz, an apartment hotel. The area from 66th to 69th 
St., between Third and Fifth Aves., was at one time set aside for 
a public park. It was never used for park purposes, but the land 
was sold or donated for public institutions. The block from 68th 
to 69th St., Lexington to Park Ave., is occupied by the Normal 
College, the city college for girls. Instruction is free. There are 
about 3,000 students who follow a five years' course, leading to the 
A.B. degree and a temporary teacher's license. Nearly all the 
female public school teachers in the city are graduates of this 
institution. A new building is replacing the old one. 

On the block from 68th to 69th St., Third to Lexington Ave., 
is the New York Foundling Asylum and St. Ann's Maternity 
Hospital. Both are under the control of the Sisters of Charity 
and accommodate 700 children and 300 adults. The institutions 
are nominally undenominational, but the children are brought up 
in the R. C. faith. 

On the block from 67th to 68th St.. Lexington to Park Ave., 
are the New York Institute for the Improved Instruction of Deaf- 
mutes, on the Lexington Ave. side, Hahnemann H(.spital on the 
Park Ave. side, and the Baptist Home for the Aged on 68th St. 
In the first of these institutions the oral method of teaching deaf- 
mutes is employed. It has about 250 pupils, most of whom are 
admitted free, while those that can pay are charged $6 a week. 
The Hahnemann Hospital is a homeopathic institution, having 
private wards and a few free beds. A Training School for nurses 
is attached to it. The Baptist Home has accommodations for 
100 inmates. 

On the block east of the Institution for the Improved Instruc- 
tion of D'eaf-mutes are the N. Y. Neurological Institute, a hospital 
and dispensary for the treatment of nervous and brain diseases, 
the headquarters of the N. Y. Fire Department, a police station 
(31st Precinct) and the Svnaeogue of Zichron Ephraim. 

The N. Y. FIRE DEPARTAIENT consists of 4,843 men in 
the regular paid department and 1,834 men in volunteer compa- 
nies in outlying districts. The work is divided into 4 bureaus, 
extinguishment, fire prevention, telegraph, repairs and supplies. 
There are 188 engine companies, 79 hook and ladder companies, 
8 separate hose companies and 41 volunteer companies. There are 
in addition 11 floating engines (fire boats), 3 search-light engines, 
5 water-towers and a number of companies are equipped w'ith 
chemical engines. In the district between ]\Iaiden Lane and 
Houston St., on the east, and Chambers St. and 23d St., on the 



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west, is the high-pressure system. There are two pumping-stations, 
one at Oliver and South Sts., the other at Gansevoort and West 
Sts., which can be combined -and have together a pumping capa- 
city of 30,000 gallons a minute. In the area covered by this sys- 
tem in Manhattan, 2,800 acres, there are 95 miles of mains 12 to 
14 in. in diameter, 2,070 hydrants with 4-in. nozzles and 371 tele- 
phone boxes directly connected with the pumping stations. There 
is a similar system in Brooklyn. The introduction into the 
department of motor-driven fire apparatus, which began in 1910, 
presages the ultimate doing away with apparatus of the horse- 
drawn type. There are now 26 fire engines, 42 hose and combi- 
nation chemical and hose wagons, 12 aerial hook and ladder trucks 
and 3 water- 
to w e r s, all 
mechanically 
propelled. 
There are, in 
addition, 19 
run-abouts and 
touring cars 
used by chief 
officers, 20 
more used by 
executive offi- 
cers and bu- 
reaus and 19 
motor - driven 
delivery 
trucks. 

The block from 66th to 67th St., Lexington to Park Ave., is 
occupied by the Armory of the 7TH REOniENT, the best- 
known military organization in the United States, which traces its 
origin to the N. Y. City Regiment of Artillery, organized in 1806. 
It became a regiment in 1826. The armory was built by the regi- 
ment upon land belonging to the city. The drill room is 200 by 
300 ft. There are also squad drill rooms besides 12 company- 
rooms, officers' rooms, gymnasium, library, veterans' room, rifle 
gallery, etc. The cost of the building and furnishings was $650,- 
000. A magnificent apartment house opposite the Lexington Ave. 
side of the armory is on the site formerly occupied by Mount 
Sinai Hospital. On the southeast corner of 66th St. and Lexing- 
ton Ave. is St. Vincent Ferrer R. C. Church, and adjoining it is 
its parochial school. East of the avenue is the old Chapin Home, 
now occupied by the Bureau of Fire Prevention. At 63d St. is 



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140 King's How to See New York. 

Rodeph Scholom Synagogue. We go south to 60th St., then west 
to Madison Ave. Going up Madison Ave., the residence of 
ex-Mayor Seth Low is on the southwest corner 64th St., Syna- 
gogue Bnai Jeshurun, the second oldest congregation in New 
York, organized in 1825, on Madison Ave., near 65th St. The 
house No. 3 E. 66th St. was the residence of U. S. Grant. At 
70th St. is the Presbyterian Hospital, one of the largest general 
hospitals in the city, holding 330 beds, nearly all free. It treats 
about 4,000 cases in the hospital and 20,000 cases in the dispensary 
annually. It is unsectarian and less than 10 per cent, of the cases 
are Presbyterians. At 71st St. is St. James P. E. Church, and 
adjoining it on next corner is a beautiful though apparently neg- 
lected marble mansion, which was erected about 15 years ago but 
was never occupied. On the northwest corner of 72d St. is the 
Tiffany Mansion, designed by Stanford White, one of the most 
unique private residences in America. Adjoining it on the next 
corner is the St. James Lutheran Church, the wealthiest of this 
denomination in the city, and on the northeast corner the Madi- 
son Ave. Presbyterian Church. At No. 7 E. 73d St., west of the 
avenue, is a beautiful residence of the late Joseph Pulitzer, and 
just east of Madison Ave. is the Presbyterian Home for Aged 
Women. At 77th St. is a large brick house surrounded by lawns, 
the home of Seth Milliken. On the northwest corner of 78th St. 
is the residence of Stuyvesant Fish, and on the northwest corner 
of 79th St. is the residence formerly occupied by 'Mayor Grace. 
At 81st St. is the St. Joseph's Industrial Home for Destitute Chil- 
dren, with 750 inmates. On 84th St., east of Madison Ave., is the 
parochial school of the R. C. Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. The 
church is a large marble structure facing Park Ave. 

At 86th St! is the N. Y. Deaconess Home of the Methodist 
Church. The P. E. Church of the Beloved Disciple is on 89th 
St., east of the avenue. On 93d St. is the Squadron A Club. The 
block from 94th to 95th St., Madison to Park Ave., is covered by 
the Armory of the 8th Regiment and the 1st Squadron of Cavalry 
(formerly Squadron A). The building is one of the most 
notable in the city. The two great towers on the Park Ave. side 
are 50 ft. in diameter and 125 ft. high, and owing to the elevated 
site they are visible for miles around. The first floor of each tower 
is a room 47 ft. in diameter, 21 ft. high. The cavalry occupies 
the Madison Ave. side of the building, and when the 8th Regiment 
moves to the new armory now building in the Bronx, they will use 
the entire armory. On 97th St., west of Madison Ave., is the_ Rus- 
sian Catholic Church of St. Nicholas. There is nothing of inter- 
est north of this point, except Mount Sinai Hospital at 100th St. 



Central Park 



THE famous Central Park extends from 59th to 110th St., Fifth 
to Eighth Ave., and contains 843 acres. It has 31 miles of 
foot paths, 9^ miles of drives and 5>4 miles of bridle roads. 
The gates are at Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Aves., on the 
59th and 110th St. sides, at 59th, 64th, 67th, 72d, 79th, 85th, 90th, 
96th, 102d, 106th and 110th St. on Fifth Ave., and 59th, 65th, 
72d, 79th, 85th, 96th, 100th, 106th and 110th St. on the Eighth 
Ave. (Central Park West) side. There are sunken transverse 
roads by which wagons can cross the park at E. 65th to W. 66th 
St., E. 79th to W. 81st St., E. 85th to W. 86th St. and E. to W. 
97th St. The 85th St. transverse road divides the park into 
two equal parts, the most interesting features being in the lower 
half. Park carriages make the tour of the park in one hour; 
fare, 25 cts. They start from Fifth and Eighth Aves. and 59th 
St., pass the principal sights and allow stop-over privileges. They 
follow the two main drives, called the East Drive, near the Fifth 
Ave. side, and the West Drive, near the Eighth Ave. side. If 
one can give but an hour or two to the park, this is the best 
way of seeing it, but if there is time it should be seen on foot. 

Entering the park at the Scholars' Gate, 59th St. and Fifth 
Ave., a small lake, picturesquely set among the rocks, is west of 
the drive, and west of this is the ball field, open to the public for 
games of baseball, cricket, etc. Between the lake and ball ground 
are the carousel and swings for children. If one takes the path east of 
the drive, a short distance from the gate the MENxA.GERIE is 
reached. The large building around which it is located was the N. Y. 
State Arsenal during the Civil War. It has now park offices, a 
police station and on the upper floor a meteorological bureau. 
Some of the rooms are open to the public. The menagerie is 
a large and varied collection of wild animals — elephants, lions, 
tigers, hippopotami, bears, monkeys — birds, etc. The collections, 
while not as large as at the Bronx Park, are nevertheless very 
good. Leaving the menagerie by the path at the left of the 
restaurant and passing under the bridge which carries the trans- 
verse road, we see the donkeys which the children ride. Taking 
the path here to the left, crossing the drive and again turning 
to the left, the main drive is reached where it divides to the 
East and West Drives. 

Across it is the MALL, a broad promenade a third of a mile 
long, flanked by a double row of elms, the pride of the park. 

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BAND CONCERT ON THE MALL. 



This is consid- 
ered the most 
beautiful walk 
in America. 
At the southern 
end of the Mall 
is the Marble 
Arch, a fine 
archway under 
the drive, lead- 
ing to the walks 
on the south. 
Along the Mall 
are many stat- 
ues, and near 
the northern 
end is the mu- 
sic pavilion, where concerts by the finest bands and orchestras 
are given Saturday and Sunday afternoons during the summer. 
The goat carriages for the children are kept here, and on the cliff 
opposite is the wisteria arbor, covered by vines which in spring- 
time make a beautiful sight. On the large meadow to the west 
of the Mall is a flock of 61 Dorset sheep, valued at $25 each. 
On the north the Mall terminates in the terrace, with a highly 
decorated stairway leading under the driveway and two stair- 
ways on the other side, meeting at the esplanade in front of 
Bethesda Fountain. The bronze figure of the angel blessing the 
waters was suggested by the story of the Pool of Bethesda 
(St. John 5: 2-4). The small figures represent Temperance, 
Purity, Health and Peace. This is the chief architectural fea- 
ture of the park. The lake which covers an area of over 20 
acres was originally a marsh. 

Taking the path to the east of the lake, the boathouse, where 
rowboats may be hired with or without boatmen, is a short dis- 
tance above the esplanade. In the winter the lake is open free 
to skaters when the ice is safe. Eastward through the tunnel 
under the drive is the Conservatory Lake, where the boys sail their 
toy boats in summer and curling enthusiasts play that game in 
winter. Continuing north\Vard around the lake, the first path 
to the left leads to the Ramble, a maze of winding paths north 
of the lake, with thickets, nooks and dells, rustic bridges, small 
streams and delightful bits of scenery. Two of the paths lead 
to the cave. Taking the next path to the left and passing the 
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at the southwestern corner of the 
reservoir. This stone observation 
tower on the highest point in the 
park is a notable feature in the 
landscape, and from the upper 
platform an extensive view can be 
obtained. The smaller reservoir 
at the foot of the Belvedere holds 
150,000,000 gallons of water and 
the larger or retaining reservoir 
holds 1,030,000,000 gallons. The 
capacity of the reservoirs about 
Croton Lake, which supplies the 
city, is nearly 10,000,000,000 gal- 
lons, less than a three months' sup- 
ply. The path along the south side 
of the reservoir, shaded by over- 
arching trees, is called "Lovers' 
Walk." Taking this path eastward, 
then north, the Obelisk is reached. 
The OBELISK, or Cleopatra's 
Needle, is a single shaft of sye- 
nite granite, which was erected 
before the Temple of the Sun in 
Heliopolis, near Cairo, Egypt, in 
the 16th century B. C. In 12 B. C, 
Augustus Caesar had this and a 
companion obelisk, now on the 
Thames Embankment, London, re- 
moved to Alexandria. It was pre- 
sented by the Khedive of Egypt to' 
the United States in 1877 and 
brought to New York in 1880. Its 
transportation and erection re- 
quired a special vessel and novel 
machinery. It was rolled into the 
vessel by removing the side of the 
ship and moved from the vessel to 
its present site on cannon balls. The 
Obelisk is GOK- ft. high, 7)4 ft. at 
the base and weighs 224 tons. The 
hieroglyphics describe the virtues 
and achievements of Kings Thoth- 
mes III. and Rameses II. The in- 



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scription on the side which faced the desert was worn away 
by the desert sands, and the alternate heat and cold of our sea- 
sons have caused chips to crack and fall off, but every care is being 
taken to protect this ancient relic by coats of parafhne and other 
preservatives. The crabs at the corners of the base are repro- 
ductions of the bronze crabs which supported the Obelisk in 
Alexandria. Two of the originals are in the Museum of Art. 
Across the drive is the original brick building of the Art Mu- 
seum. The main entrance to the new building is on Fifth Ave., 
opposite 82d St. 

The METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART is the most 
famous art museum in America and one of the greatest in the 
world. The present building, which faces Fifth Ave. from 81st 
to 84th St., is part of a group planned and under construction. 
The red brick building back of the Fifth Ave. front was opened 
by the President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, m 
1880. Additions were erected in 1889 and 1894, and the main 
portion of the present front was opened in 1902. Since then four 
additions have been built and the erection of another will soon 
be commenced. The entire group of buildings, when completed 
according to the original plans, will cover an area of 18^ acres 
and wnll cost about $20,000,000. Under the presidency of the late 
J. Pierpont Morgan it became one of the richest museums in the 
world, and on his death received for exhibition his wonderful 
collection of art objects, valued at $50,000,000. A new wing is 
to be built especially to hold this, the greatest private collection 
in the world. 

It takes several hours to walk through the many rooms and 
halls, and over a dozen catalogues are required to enumerate the 
many exhibits in this Aluseum. The lower floors contain sculp- 
tures, architectural models and archaeological objects; on the 
upper floor are the galleries of paintings, musical instruments, 
articles of vertu generally, armor, etc. 

In the entrance hall are examples of ancient sculpture, includ- 
ing the statue of the Roman Emperor, Caius Vibius Trebonianus 
Callus, which was found in the Lateran. Nearby is a gallery- 
containing sculptures by Rodin. Adjoining are the Egyptian 
galleries, which contain a collection of sarcophagi, mummies, 
ushabti and other objects found in tomb chambers, as well as 
fragments of ancient temples, etc. In the halls, also connecting, 
are shown the Cypriote antiquities collected by Cen. Cesnola, 
while United States Consul in Cyprus, which include over 30,000 
specimens. In another gallery is the Marquand collection of 
ancient glass, numbering about 1,700 pieces, from Phoenicia, 



146 King's How to See Nezv York. 

Greece, Rome, Venice and Florence. In one of the classical gal- 
leries is the most perfect example of ancient war chariot known. 
Other rooms on this floor contain objects from Pompeii and Her- 
culaneum, from Babylonia and Assyria. There are several halls 
of plaster casts of famous ancient and medieval sculptures. A 
large central hall contains architectural models, including the 
well-known Willard collection. Other rooms on this floor con- 
tain decorative arts, including part of the Hoentschel collection 
of woodwork, the most complete of its kind in the world, Gothic 
and Renaissance sculptures, tapestries, etc. 

On the second floor are 20 galleries of paintings, while many 
other galleries and several balconies are devoted to various 
objects of art. A magnificent room, copied after a hall in the 
palace of Fontainebleau, contains the Bishop collection of Chi- 
nese jades, and in the adjoining room are exhibited medieval 
European arms and armor, including the Dino collection. 

Nearby are shown examples of the art of the countries of 
the Near East, in rugs, manuscripts, tiles, glass and other objects. 
The galleries containing the laces exhibit important specimens, 
among them the Blackborne collection, which includes over 600 
examples. In the gold and silver rooms are collections of carved 
and engraved gems, rare watches, a large collection of spoons, 
many military medals and decorations and other examples of 
the ancient and modern goldsmiths' art. The Crosby Brown col- 
lection of musical instruments is shown in five rooms. Chinese 
and Japanese ceramics are well represented, and one room con- 
tains the famous Morgan collection of Chinese porcelains. Other 
objects of art of Chinese and Japanese workmanship are shown 
in the adjoining gallery, including two beautiful screens. A col- 
lection of Japanese armor is in the gallery on the north side of 
the main stairway, while reproductions of metalwork from other 
museums and private collections are exhibited in the gallery on 
the south side of the stairway. The entire second floor of the 
northwest wing is given over to the exhibition of part of the 
Bolles collection of early American furniture and European fur- 
niture of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, arranged according to 
periods. In these rooms are also textiles and needlework of the 
same epoch, as well as other branches of industrial art. 

The paintings are arranged as nearly as possible according to 
schools, but several rooms contain entire collections of individual 
donors. The galleries exhibit works by old masters of the 
Italian, Dutch. Flemish, German, Spanish. English and French 
schools, as well as examples of modern artists. 

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entire art collection to the Aluseum Qutright. The collection,, 
valued at over $5,000,000, constituted the largest single gift ever 
received. It includes a large number of paintings, among them 
three by Frans Hals, 13 by Rembrandt and four by Hans Mem- 
ling, also many sculptures and bronzes. In addition there are 
about 466 pieces of Chinese porcelains, a large collection of snufif 
bottles in porcelain and hard stones, and other miscellaneous 
pieces, including the famous gold salt cellar by Benvenuto Cellini. 

An extensive library of books and photographs is at the dis- 
posal of the public during Museum hours, excepting Sundays. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a private organization, 
incorporated April 13, 1870, occupying buildings owned by the 
city, which also contributes to the cost of maintenance. The 
corporation governs the exhibits. The Museum is free to the 
public, except Monday and Friday, when an admission fee of 
25 cts. is charged. It is open on Sunday from 1 to 6 P. M. ; 
Saturday from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M., and on other davs from 
10 A. M. to 5 P. M. in winter, and from 10 A. M. to 6 P. M. in 
summer. 

Following the path north from, the Museum along the drive,. 
we pass the large reservoir, then the North Meadow, where in 
the summer there are hundreds of tennis courts in use. Just 
beyond, on the east of the drive, is McGown's Pass Tavern, a 
public restaurant. The Greenhouses to the east of McGown's 
Pass are open free to the public. Chrysanthemum and other 
floral exhibitions are occasionally held here. Fort Fish, on the 
hill to the north, overlooking the lake, was begun by Wash- 
ington's troops after the Battle of Long Island. The ancient 
road to Albany passed between the hill on which the Tavern 
stands and the hill on which the fort stood and around the west 
of the latter hill. Part of the Harlem Mere, at the foot of the 
hill, is part of an old pond. The pass was guarded by a tempo- 
rary fort on the hill and intrenchments along the road, some 
of which can. still be traced on the north side of the foot path. 
After the British landed on IManhattan Island, the troops on the 
eastern side of the island, north of Kip's Bay (35th St.), were 
hurried up this road, and Alexander Hamilton's Battery was. 
stationed on the hill to protect their retreat. The British fol- 
lowed so closely that Hamilton had barely time to get his guns 
down the hill and upon the Kingsbridge Road (now St. Nicholas 
Ave.), before the enemy occupied the hill. The British strength- 
ened the works and it was a fortified post throughout the Revo- 
lution. The Block House overlooking the Seventh Ave. entrance 
on the 110th St. side was erected during the War of 1812. 



59tli to llOtk Street, West 

ROUTE, SuhwKiy, Columbus Circle up Central Park West to 
iioth St. (Cathedral Parkway), to Amsterdam Ave., to io6th 
St., to Riverside Drive, to 7 2d St., to Broadzvay, to Colum- 
bus Circle. As the distances in this chapter are considerable 
it is zvell to take the surface car north and the 'bus back. 

THE subway station is at Columbus Circle, which is at the 
intersection of Broadway, Eighth Ave. (called Central Park 
West between 59th and 110th Sts.) and W. 59th St. In the cen- 
tre of the circle is the tall rostrate column to Christopher 
Columbus, ornamented with bronze reliefs and crowned with the 
statue of the great discoverer. At the corner of the park is the 
new Maine Memorial to the heroes who lost their lives by the 
explosion which destroyed the battleship in Havana Harbor. It 
was erected by popular subscription. 

Northward this section is largely residential, with magnifi- 
cent apartment houses, private residences and hotels. On the 
circle above 59th St. is Faust's Restaurant and Cafe, and at the 
corner of 60th St. is the Circle Theatre, now used for photo- 
plays. On the block on Central Park West, from 62d to 63d St., 
is the new Century Theatre, the finest playhouse in America. 
It is owned by an association of which W. K. Vanderbilt is 
president, Clarence H. Mackay and W. B. O. Field are vice- 
presidents and Otto H. Kahn is treasurer. Grand opera and 
the best of dramatic plays are presented. On the block above are 
the buildings of the Society for Ethical Culture. They contain 
the offices, meeting-hall and schools of the society. At 68th St. 
is the marble building of the Second Christian Science Church. 
At 70th St. is the synagogue of the Jewish congregation, Shearith 
Israel, the oldest in America, organized in 1658. The first Jews 
in New York were descendants of the Spanish Jews, who, 
driven out of Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella, had gone to 
Portugal and then to the Netherlands, where there was religious 
liberty. The congregation and many of its members trace their 
descent to these early organizers. The block from 71st to 72d St. 
is occupied by the Hotel Majestic, one of the largest of the fash- 
ionable apartment hotels. ' On the north side of the street is the 
Dakota, one of the earliest of the fashionable apartment houses. 
On 73d St., just west of the park. General William T. Sherman 
lived, at No. 67. On Central Park West the Langham occupies 
the block from 73d to 74th St., the San Remo the block from 
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74th to 75th St. At the south corner of 76th St. is the Church 
of the Divine Paternity, the chief Universalist Church in the city. 
On the block from 76th St. to 77th St. is the building of the New 
York Historical Society, organized 1804. This society has a 
library of over 70,000 volumes, a large number of relics, maps 
and illustrations, dealing with the city history, a collection of 
Egyptian antiquities and the Nineveh marbles. The building and 
collections can be seen bv card of introduction from a member. 




AMERICAN iMUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



From 77th St. to 81st St. and Central Park West to Colum- 
bus Ave, is Manhattan Square, covering l^^Vi acres and contain- 
ing the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
The present building is only one side of the contemplated struc- 
ture and is already one of the largest museums of its kind in 
the world. The building, as planned, will occupy the entire 
square and will consist of a central structure, four sides similar 
to the side already completed and a wing each side of the cen- 
tral building, the whole to cost $20,000,000. The Museum was 
established in 1869 to promote the natural sciences and to dif- 
fuse a general knowledge of them among the people. The 
JMuseum exhibits collections illustrating life on land and 



Ki)ig's Hozv to See Nezv York. 151 

sea from all regions of the earth — birds, fishes, mammals, in- 
sects, reptiles, woods of North America, primitive races of men 
and their arts — maintains a free public reference library and 
during the season from October to May provides various public 
evening lectures on science and travel. Among the especially 
noteworthy exhibits are the Morgan collection of gems and gem 
materials ; the Jesup collection of North American woods ; 
habitat bird groups; collection of meteorites; sledges used by 
Rear-Admiral Peary and Captain Amundsen on their trips to the 
North and South Poles, respectively; collections illustrating the 
evolution of the horse ; animals of the world, both past and 
present, including long extinct giant reptiles, and large and 
attractive collections illustrating the life and industries of the 
native races of the South Sea Islands, Philippine Islands, Asia, 
Africa, Mexico and South America, and especially the Eskimo 
and Indians of North America. The great collections and exhi- 
bitions of the Museum are the gifts of public-spirited citizens and 
friends. Nearly 4,000 members are now contributing to explora- 
tions in America and other parts of the world. This Museum is 
another example of the philanthropic spirit of the wealthy citi- 
zens of New York. While the city furnishes the building and 
contributes annually to the running expenses of the same, the 
exhibits are supplied by the trustees and friends of the Museum, 
who have also contributed to the permanent endowment fund, 
amounting to $2,500,000. The late Morris K. Jesup alone con- 
tributed $1,000,000 to this fund. The Museum is open free to 
the public every day of the year; week days, including legal 
holidays, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., Sunday afternoons from 1 to 5. 
On Central Park West, from 81st to 82d St., is the Beresford 
Apartment House. Many large apartment houses have been 
erected during the last few years between 82d and 110th St., some 
having 12 to 14 stories and covering a whole block front. At 
96th St. is the Scotch Presbyterian Church, organized in 1756, 
and on the north side is the First Christian Scientist Church, a 
marble structure with a truncated pyramidal top. Between 99th 
and 100th iSts. is the small Red Cross Hospital and Training 
.School. At 106th St. is the General Memorial Hospital for the 
treatment of cancer. A residence south of 107th St. deserves 
passing notice on account of its Venetian architecture. We go 
west at 110th St. under the Elevated structure, where it curves 
from Colum.bus Ave. at a height of 60 ft., the highest point in 
the city, to Amsterdam Ave., passing the Woman's Hospital 
between Columbus and Amsterdam Aves. This hospital, estab- 
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Turning south at Amsterdam Ave., we pass, at 109th St., the 
offices and schools of the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF 
DESIGN, organized in 1826. This is the leading art organization 
in America, and its members bear the honorary title of N. A. 
(National Academician), or A. N. A. (Associate National Aca- 
demician), there being 141 of the former and 115 of the latter. 
The Academy holds an annual exhibition of new works by its 
members. This and other exhibitions are open to the pubhc from 
9 to 4. The art schools are free. On 3 06th St.. east of Amster- 
dam Ave., is the House for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the 
Poor (R. C), and on the south side of the block, extending 
through to 105th St., is the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, 
with 320 inmates. We go west at 106th St. to Riverside Drive 
and Park. 

See Riverside Drive 
from a 'Bus. 

RIVERSIDE PARK ex- 
tends from 72d to 129th St.. 
has an area of 140 acres and 
at points rises to a height of 
130 ft. above the river. The 
development of the park and 
the drive began after the 
interment of General Grant 
in 1885, and since then the 
drive has been lined by 
rows of high-class apartment 
houses and residences. The 
square-towered building at 
108th St. is the residence of 
S. G. Bayne, bank president. 
At 106th St. is the eques- 
trian statue of General Franz 
Sigel. The iron building at 
102d St., set back from the 
street, is the residence of 
Mrs. B. M. Foster, widow 
of the inventor of the glove 
hook. At 100th St. is the 
Firemen's Memorial, erected 
in 1913 to commemorate the 

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' ^'"''^^ ^'4' °o.!u%^''''^ ^^?^^ 

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RIVERSIDE PARK. Schwab residence at right. 

home of John Matthews, the manufacturer of soda water and 
fountains. The north side of 89th St. is the residence of the 
widow of Bishop Potter, and on the opposite corner is the 
residence of Schinasi, the cigarette manufacturer. 

The statue of Washington, opposite, was a gift from the 
school children. The Soldiers and Sailors' Monument at 89th 
St. is a circular marble structure, erected in 1902 to the soldiers 
and sailors who saved the Union from 1861 to 186.5. At the foot 
of 86th St. is the Columbia Yacht Club. On the block from 
74th to 73d St. is the Charles M. Schwab Mansion, the finest 
residence in New York and one of the most beautiful city resi- 
dences in the world. The land cost $860,000 and the building 
cost $2,000,000 more. After the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Schwab 
the building and ground are to become the property of the city. 
We go through 72d St. to Broadway. 

The things of chief interest on Broadway northward, all of 
which may be seen by taking the car at 72d St., are the Ansonia, 
on the west side* from 73d to 74th St., the Hotel Belleclaire, 
corner of 77th St., and the Apthorp, occupying the entire block 
from 78th to 79th St., on the west side. This enormous apart- 
ment house, one of the largest in the world, was built by the 
Astors. On the northwest corner of 79th St. is the First Baptist 
Church. The Wiirzburger Hofbrau Restaurant is near 83d St. 
Bretton Hall is on the east side, from 85th to 86th St.. Euclid 
Hall is opposite Bretton Hall, and the Belnord, another enor- 
mous apartment house, occupies the whole block from 86th to 
87th St., Broadway to Amsterdam Ave. A new theatre, the only 



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one on the west side between 66th and 125th Sts., Is in course of 
erection at 97th St. Unter den Linden Restaurant, an open-air 
garden, is at 98th St., and Carleton Terrace is a similar place at 
100th St. 

At No. 2342 Broadway, corner 85th St., is the store of Henry 
Nockin, established 1892, the oldest jewelry merchant on Broad- 
way. Here is the best stock of diamonds, watches and fine 
jewelry in this part of the city, many being imported direct by 
Air. Nockin. 

There is nothing of interest on Amsterdam or Columbus Aves. 
except St. Agnes Chapel of Trinity Parish on 92d St., between 
the two avenues, and at the same street, at the corner of Amster- 
dam Ave., the M. E. Church Home for the Aged, with 110 
inmates. At the southwest corner of 104th St. and Amsterdam 
Ave. is the Home for the Relief of the Destitute Blind, and on 
the opposite side of the avenue is the Home of the Association 
for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females in the City 
of New York, the ponderous title of a worthy charity, established 
in 1815. It accommodates 120. 

The open space where Broadway and Amsterdam Ave. cross 
from 71st to 73d St. is called Sherman Square. At 73d St. is the 
marble statue of Verdi, surrounded by some of his creations. 
Turning south on Broadway, the Hotel Marie Antoinette is at 
67th St., and the Nevada opposite. On 68th St.. east of Broad- 
way, is the New York College of Pharmacy. The block from 
67th to 68th St. holds the Armory of the First Field Artillery. 
Opposite it, at No. _ 121 W. 68th St., is the Camera Club. The 
block on the west side, from 65th to 66th St., is the Lincoln Sq. 
Theatre building, and on 65th St., west of Broadway, is the High 
School of Commerce, one of the public high schools. Opposite, 
at the corner of 66th St. and Columbus Ave., which here crosses 
Broadway, forming Lincoln Square, is Healy's Restaurant. Ad- 
joining it, on 66th St., is the St. Nicholas Skating Rink. Oppo- 
site the latter is the Armory of the First Hospital Company. On 
the same block, near Central Park, is Dnrland's Riding Academv. 

On 63d St., facing the little square at the junction of Broad- 
way and Columbus Ave., is the Hotel Empire, and adjoining it 
on Broadway, at 62d 'St.. is Keith's Colonial Theatre, a high- 
class vaudeville house. There are numerous automobile con- 
cerns in this part of Broadway, the east side of the street being 
monopolized by this industry. Through 62d St., at Columbus 
Ave., may be seen the Armory of Twelfth Regiment. At 59th St. 
we are again at Columbus Circle and can take the subway or 
continue southward on the 'bus. 



llOtk to 130tli Street 

ROUTE.— iioth St., Cathedral Fark-Miy Subzvay Station to Am- 
sterdam Ave., 114th St., Broadway^ 116 St., to Morningside 
Park, to I22d St., to Amsterdam Ave., to 120th St., to River- 
side Drive, 130th St. Ferry Car to Lexington Ave. and 
125th St., to Lexington Ave., 127th St., Second Ave., 125th St., 
First Ave., ii6th St. Car to iioth St. "L" Station. 

GOING east on Cathedral Parkway to Amsterdam Ave., we 
pass the lower end of Morningside Park, which extends 
from 110th to 123d St. The top of the bluff is about 100 ft. 
above the plain. 

North of 110th St. is the P. E. CATHEDRAL OF ST. 
JOHN THE DIVINE, begun in 1892 and requiring 40 to 50 
years more to complete. The cost so far has been $3,500,000, and 
it is estimated that a like amount will be required for its com- 
pletion. The crypt, which was quarried out of the solid rock, 
the choir and two of the seven chapels which are to surround it 
are completed and services are held in them at 8 and 11 A. M. 
and 4 P. M. and are open to visitors at other times. In the crypt 
is the Tiffany Chapel, and in the choir are eight Barberini tapes- 
tries made in Rome in 1633. The building will be 520 ft. long, 
170 ft. wide and 290 ft. across the transepts. Height of central 
spire, 445 ft. ; front towers, 245 ft. ; length of nave, 180 ft. ; 
height of chancel vault, 115 ft. The grounds also contain the 
bishop's house, Choir School at 110th St. and Morningside Ave., 
Deaconess' Home on 110th St., and Synod Hall, Amsterdam Ave., 
cor. 110th St. All of the Cathedral now built is from the designs 
of Heins & LaFarge. Mr. Ralph A. Cram, who was made 
supervising architect in 1911, has prepared new plans which 
are now under consideration. They call for a purely Gothic 
structure with two slender towers instead of one massive one. 
The walls in the arches are only temporary. 

Opposite the Cathedral, at No. 1060 Amsterdam Ave., is the 
P. E. Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, with 60 inmates. 
The small stone building on the southwest corner of 113th St. is 
a gate house of the water system. On the block from 113th to 
114th St. is the beautiful marble building of St. Luke's Hospital, 
with 300 beds, many of them free, and two separate tuberculosis 
w^ards. It is a Protestant Episcopal institution, but unsectarian 
in its activities. At 114th St. and Broadway is the St. Luke's 

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Home for Aged Women, with 85 inmates, on the southeast corner, 
and the Broad Presbyterian Church on the northwest. 

The tract from 114th St. to 120th St., between Amsterdam 
Ave. and Broadway, belongs to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. 
North of 116th St. stands the Low Library Building, costing 
$1,200,000, the gift of Seth Low. The building, considered 
to be the purest example of classic Greek architecture in Amer- 
ica, is the center of the group of buildings constituting the Uni- 
versity. The library has about 550,000 volumes. In front of the 
library is the library terrace, laid out in Italian style. The build- 
ing plan contemplates a group of 15 buildings, nine of which 
are already erected. These are Livingston, Hartley and Hamil- 
ton Halls on the Amsterdam Ave. side south of 116th St. The 
(PuHtzer) Journalism Building, and Furnald Hall on the Broad- 
way side south of 116th St.; the Kent Hall, Philosophy Build- 
ing, Avery Building and Fayerweather Hall north of 116th St. ; 
Schermerhorn and Havemeyer Hall and the University Hall 
north of the Library, the Engineering Hall, Earl Hall and the 
School of Mines on the Broadway side. To the east of the 
Library is St. Paul's Chapel, and to the west is the Faculty Club. 
On the north side of 120th St. is the Teachers College, with the 
Horace Mann School adjoining on Broadway. Barnard College 
is on the west side of Broadway. This college for women com- 
prises three halls — Milbank Hall, facing 119th St., and Fiske and 
Brinckerhoff Halls on the sides. Barnard and the Teachers Col- 
lege are parts of Columbia University. The other schools that 
form the University are Columbia College, College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, schools of Political Science, Philosophy and Pure 
Science, College of Pharmacy and the schools of law, mines, 
engineering and chemistry, fine arts, journalism, the summer school 
and extension teaching. There are altogether over 10,000 stu- 
dents, including summer session and extension courses and 
about 850 instructors. The college was founded as King's College 
in 1754, the original charter being granted by King George II. 

Going east on 116th St. to Morningside Park, we see the statue 
of Carl Schurz, the German-American statesman and soldier. 
Walking north along the park to 122d St., we come to the block 
house which, with the one in Central Park, is one of the only two 
remaining of a series of such structures built during the War of 
1812 to guard the city from attack from the north. The ground 
covered by Columbia University, to the edge of the bluff, was 
the site of the Battle of Harlem Heights, fought on September 
16, 1776. A bronze tablet on the Broadway side of the Colum- 
bia buildinsfs. between 117th and 118th Sts., commemorates the 



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event. Turning south on Amsterdam Ave., the College Bookstore 
is in Whittier Hall, corner 120th St. Going west on 120th St., 
we pass Teachers College and Horace Mann School, on the 
corner of Broadway. Across Broadway, on the south side of the 
street, is Barnard College. From 120th St. to 122d St., and going 
back to Claremont Ave., is the Union Theological Seminary, 
founded in 1836, for the training of Presbyterian ministers. It is 
affiliated with the N. Y. University, being independent of ecclesi- 
astical control. At the corner of Claremont Ave. and 122d St. is 




GRANT'S TOMB. 



Claremont Inn 



the D. Willis James IMemorial Chapel. On 123d Si,, west of 
Amsterdam Ave., is the Jewish Theological Seminarv. 

Near the upper end of Riverside Park is GRANT'S TOMB, 
begun April 27, 1891 ; corner-stone laid April 27, 1892, and dedi- 
cated April 27, 1897. The monument covers a square of 90 ft. ; 
it is 72 ft. high, surmounted by a circular cupola 70 ft. high. 
The apex is 280 ft. above the river, the whole presenting a ma- 
jestic appearance from whatever side it is seen. The sarcophagus 
is a single piece of red granite bearing the name Ulysses S. Grant, 
supported by a granite pedestal. A similar sarcophagus along- 
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it 




i 



was $600,000, col- 
lected by popular 
subscription. It 
also contains 
many battle flags 
and other relics. 
Admission free 
from 10 A. M. to 
5 P. M. Behind 
the Monument 
are a Japanese 
g^uigko or maid- 
enhair tree and 
a Chinese cork 
tree, sent by Li 
Hung Chang, the 
Chinese states- 
man. An appro- 
priate bronze tab- 
let is placed at 
the side. A little 
beyond the tomb 
is the Claremont 
Inn. The building 
is supposed to 
have been erected 
by Dr. Post as a 
summer home be- 
fore the Revolu- 
tion. After the 
Revolution it was 
occupied for a 
time by George 
Pollack, a New 

York merchant, the grave of whose child is still preserved a few 
feet from the house. In 1809 the British minister lived here. 
In 1812 it was the residence of the Earl of Devon, and in 1815 
Joseph Bonaparte lived here as the Count Surveilliers. 

At the end of the park is a steel viaduct over the Manhattan- 
ville Valley, connecting with the Riverside Drive Extension. 

A stairway leads to Manhattan St., where we take the cross- 
town car, which goes through Manhattan St. to 125th St., then 
east to First Ave., passing under the two steel viaducts, one for 
Riverside Drive, the other at Broadway for the subway. At No. 





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160 King's How to See Neiv York. 

170, just east of Broadway, is the uptown plant of the Sheffield 
Farms-Slawson Decker Co., where they have a complete and 
up-to-date plant for pasteurizing, bottling, testing and generally 
handling, similar to their main plant on 57th St. 

One Hundred and Twenty-fifth St. is the principal business 
street of Harlem, and at night it is Harlem's "Gay White Way." 
The theatres on the street are the West End, near St. Nicholas Ave. 
(popular-price drama) ; Hurtig & Seaman's, near Seventh Ave.; 
Keith's Harlem Opera House, at No. 205 ; Alhambra, Seventh 
Ave., north of 125th St. (good vaudeville); Seventh Ave., Sev- 
enth Ave., south of 125th St. (vaudeville and photoplays) ; 
Proctor's, near Lexington Ave. (vaudeville) ; Gotham, near 
Third Ave. (burlesque). Other notable places are Pabst's Har- 
lem Cafe Restaurant, opposite Hurtig & Seaman's Theatre ; the 
Winthrop apartment house, corner of Seventh Ave. ; Koch's 
department store, between Lenox and Seventh Aves. ; Harlem 
Branch of Y. M. C. A., near Madison Ave., and the structure 
carrying the N. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R. and N. Y., 
N. H. & H. R. R. on Park Ave., there being a station at this 
point. The Harlem Savings Bank is near Lexington Ave. 

Going up Lexington Ave. at 127th St., there is a large Boys' 
Hotel, conducted by the Children's Aid Society, and opposite it 
is the Harlem Eye and Ear Infirmary. We go to Second Ave., 
where is Sulzer's Harlem River Park and Casino, a summer 
outing place and dance hall. Turn south to 125th St. and east to 
First Ave. and the Manhattan end of Willis Ave. Bridge. Going 
south on First Ave., on 123d St., east of the avenue, is the New 
York Home for homeless boys. The large building seen at the 
foot of the street is the City Hospital on Randall's Island, in the 
East River. On E. 116th St., just east of First Ave., is the 
Home Garden Settlement. We take the crosstown car west and 
pass the Sydenham Hospital, near First Ave., the East Harlem 
Church and neighborhood center, and Grace Emmanuel P. E. 
Church, between Second and Third Aves. At Fifth Ave. is the 
Mt. Morris Theatre. At Seventh Ave. are several fine apartment 
houses and the new Regent Theatre, the finest photoplay house 
in the country. On 115th St., west of Seventh Ave., is the Wad- 
leigh High School for girls. The square brick structure at Eighth 
Ave. has an elevator for the "L" station. The car turns into 
Manhattan Ave. and passes at 114th St. a statue of Washington 
and Lafayette, a replica of the statue erected in Paris. We leave 
the car at 110th St. "L" station. 

Note. — Lenox, Seventh and St. Nicholas Aves. have some fine 
apartment houses, but little else of interest. 



130tli Street to Kingstridge 

ROUTE.^iSSth St. and Lenox Ave. Subway, 135th St., Seventh 
Ave to 128th St., Amsterdam- Ave., 131st St., Convent Ave., 
145th St., Amsterdam Ave., 155th St., Broadway, 156th St., 
Edgecombe Ave., 163d St., Amsterdam to Fort George, to 
Dyckman St. Subivay, to Kingsbridge (225th St.), return via 
Broadway to Dyckman St., Lafayette Boulevard, Fort IVash- 
ington Ave. to 165th St., to Broadway, to i68th St. Subzvay. 

ONE block north of 135th St., on Lenox Ave., is Harlem Hos- 
pital, a branch of Bellevue Hospital. We go west to Sev- 
enth Ave., then south, passing St. Aloysius R. C. Church on 132d 
St., Calvary M. E. Church on 129th St. and New York Presbyte- 
rian Church on 128th St. Turning west here to Amsterdam Ave., 
St. Mary's P. E. Church, organized in 1828, is just west of the 
avenue, on Lawrence St. On the same block is the Speyer 
School, really a social settlement with schools, kindergarten, 
clubs, reading-room, gymnasium, etc. Going up Amsterdam Ave., 
at 129th St. is the Sheltering Arms, a temporary home for chil- 
dren, having 190 inmates. At 131st St. is the Knickerbocker 
Hospital, formerly called J. Hood Wright Hospital, a free hos- 
pital with dispensary and ambulance. Turning east on 131st St. 
and north on Convent Ave., we pass on the higher ground the 
large Convent of the Sacred Heart. It is a school for girls, hav- 
ing about 300 pupils, mostly boarders. This is one of the oldest 
and best-known convent schools in the country. At 135th St. and 
Convent Ave. is the Orphan Asvlum of the P. E. Church, with 
110 inmates. The block from 'l36th to 138th St., Amsterdam 
Ave. to Broadway, is occupied by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 
incorporated in 1822. It accommodates 1,000 inmates. 

From 138th to 140th St. is the COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF 
NEW YORK, founded 1847 as the Free Academy and now part 
of the public educational system, and is the largest school under 
municipal control in the world. It has about 7,000 students and 
235 instructors, and costs about $250,000 a year for its main- 
tenance. The group of buildings on the grounds cost $4,000,000. 
The block southeast of the college grounds has recently been 
purchased by an admirer of the college and presented to the city 
for an athletic field for the students. In the main building is 
a large hall used for lectures and concerts, containing a large 
organ on which recitals are frequently given on Sunday after- 

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COLLEGE OP THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

noon. At 141st St. and Convent Ave., is St. Luke's P. E. Church, 
an offshoot of St, Luke's Chapel in Hudson St. Adjoining it, 
now used as a school, is Hamilton Grange, the home of Alexan- 
der Hamilton at the time of his duel with Aaron Burr. The 13 
historic trees which he planted were recently destroyed, and the 
apartment house at the southwest corner of 143d St. and Con- 
vent Ave. is on their site. His house stood here originally. At 
145th St. and Convent Ave. is the Washington Heights Baptist 
Church, and opposite is a mission of St. Matthews Lutheran 
Church. West 145th St. is the principal cross street in this part 
of the city and the only one cut through and built up between 
129th and 155th Sts. We return on this street to Amsterdam 
Ave. and continue northward. 

At 153d St. and Amsterdam Ave. is the Washington Heights 
M. E. Church. From 153d to 155th St. is Trinity Church Ceme- 
tery, opened in 1843. Many old New York families, whose vaults 
in the churchyard are filled, have vaults here. On the Broadway 
side of the cemetery is the beautiful new edifice for the Chapel 
of the Intercession of Trinity Parish. On 155th St., opposite 
the cemetery, is the Washington Heights branch of the Y. M. C. A. 

North of Trinity Cemetery, from 155th to 158th St., west of 
Broadway, is Audubon Park, a private park, containing the house 
in which the naturalist Audubon lived from 1841 to 1851. The 
old house near the river was the end-station of the telegraph to 



King's How to See New York. 163 

Philadelphia, where Morse received the first telegraphic message 
from that city in 1843. Large apartment houses now cover part 
of the park. Between 155th and 156th Sts., near Broadway, is 
a group of prominent buildings. The American Geographical 
Society, on the corner of 156th St. and Broadway, has a library 
of 45,000 volumes and a collection of 30,000 maps open to the 
public. The Hispanic Society, occupying the center building on 
an elevation, has a library of 75,000 volumes, dealing with Spain, 
Portugal and Latin America. Card of admission obtainable by 
application to the librarian. Adjoining this on the west is the 
American Numismatic Society, with a large collection of coins 
and medals and a library of 3,000 volumes. The collections are 
displayed in the society museum, which is open to the public. 
On 156th St., still nearer the river, is the Spanish R. C. Church of 
Our Lady of Esperanza, standing on a large rock. Going east 
on 156th St., we reach, at Edgecombe Ave., the Central Bridge 
viaduct over the Harlem River. Here is the beginning of the 
Speedway, a stretch 214 miles long and from 100 to 150 ft. wide, 
used exclusively for fast driving. Nearly five years were spent 
in its construction, the cost being $3,000,000. From 157th St. to 
159th St., between the Speedway and Eighth Ave., are the Polo 
Grounds baseball field, the home of the "Giants" of the National 
League Club. Going up Edgecombe Ave. to 160th St., we reach 
the Jumel Mansion, one of the most interesting of the historic 
buildings in the city. It was erected by Col. Roger Morris in 1756. 
Morris later married Mary Philipse, who once rejected Wash- 
ington's suit. After the Battle of Long Island, Washington made 
this his headquarters, and on Sept. 18, 1776, Nathan Hale started 
from here on his disastrous journey. The house became the 
headquarters of Sir Henry Clinton and Baron Kuyphansen dur- 
ing the Revolution. Confiscated by the State Government in 1785, 
it was sold to John Jacob Astor. In 1810 it became the property 
of Stephen Jumel, whose widow later married Aaron Burr. The 
Jumels were French, and every notable French personage who 
visited the city was their guest. Among these were Lafayette, 
Joseph and Jerome Bonaparte and Louis Napoleon. It is now 
a museum of Revolutionary relics, under the charge of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution. Open free from 9 to 5. 
Going northward on Amsterdam Ave., we pass the small high- 
service reservoir holding 11,000,000 gallons, a pumping station 
and water tower to supply buildings on Washington Heights. 

High Bridge, at 175th St., is the support for the old Croton 
Aqueduct, the pipes being bricked over to form the foot walk 
across the bridge. At 180th St. and the Harlem River is a pump- 



164 King's Hozv to See Nezv York. 

ing station for the new aqueduct which passes under the river 
in a huge siphon. At 181st St. is the Washington Bridge. At 
190th St. is the Isabella Heimath, a home for the aged, infirm 
and convalescent, established by Oswald Ottendorfer, for many 
years owner and editor of the Neiv-Yorker Staats-Zeitiing. The 
home has 175 beds. It is free, patients beino accepted without 
regard to creed or nationality. North of the Isabella Heimath is 
Fort George, a summer pleasure resort. The top of the hill is 
the site of Baxter's Redoubt, which was captured by Cornwallis 
before the attack upon Fort Washington. The British strength- 
ened it and called it Fort George. A few years ago, while dig- 
ging the foundation for one of the structures on top of the hill, 
some bones, parts of military uniforms, bullets, etc., were found. 
It is supposed that they were the remains of the patriotic defend- 
ers of the redoubt. A new subway station has recently been 
opened at 190th St. The station is 30 ft. below the level of St. 
Nicholas Ave., which is here 40 ft. above the level of Broadway. 
Instead of digging down from above, an opening was made into 
the side of the hill at Broadway and an underground street was 
formed from Broadway to the station. We walk around the edge 
of the hill and down the steep Fort George Ave., at the rear of 
the amusement park, to Broadway. This hill road is much used 
in automobile hill-climbing contests. 

We can take the subway here, where it emerges and goes north- 
ward as an elevated structure. There is little of interest north of 
Dyckman St., however, except the views on the Bronx side of the 
river. These can be seen about as well from the vicinity of 
Dyckman St. The large group at the south, nearly opposite 
Dyckman St., is N. Y. Universitv and Hall of Fame ; the next 
large building to the north is Webb Academy and Home for 
Shipbuilders, and next is the R. C. Orphan Asylum. All are 
described in the Bronx chapter. The subway crosses the Harlem 
Ship Canal on an upper level of the ship canal bridge. This 
canal was cut through Marble Hill at the extreme northern point 
of Manhattan Island to make a straighter and deeper channel 
from the Hudson to the Harlem River. It enables vessels draw- 
ing nine feet of water to pass from the Hudson to the Sound 
without the necessity of going around the Battery, a saving of 
20 miles. Marble Hill is now an island nearly circular in form. 
1,500 ft. in diameter. The top is the site of the revolutionary 
Fort Prince. If we do not take the subway northward we walk 
west on Dyckman St. to Broadway, formerly called Kingsbridge 
Road, the old highway to Albany. Just north of Dyckman St. 
is an old Dutch farmhouse, built soon after the Revolution, 



King's Hozv to See Neiv York. 165 

occupied by a descendant of the Dutch farmer Hans Dyckman, 
who settled here about 1680. Dyckman St. leads to the village of 
Inwood on the Hudson. Near the river, north of Dyckman St., 
is the House of Mercy, a P. E. reformatory for girls. A short 
distance belov^^ Dyckman St. is Elwood St., a narrow street 
which curves around the edge of the hill to Fort Washington Ave. 
on top of the ridge. Near 198th St. is Abbey Inn, a famous 
restaurant. It was an abbey from 1845 to 1895. Just beyond is 
the magnificent estate of C. K. G. Billings. In front is a tablet on 
the site of Fort Tyron, the northern out-work of the fort, and in 
memory of Margaret Crobin, the first American woman to take a 
soldier's part in the war for liberty.' On the opposite side of the 
street is a residence, once the home of William M. Tweed, later of 
W. L. Libby, at one time partner of A. T. Stewart. It was long 
known as Libby Castle. The revolutionary Fort Washington, 
which was captured by the British in November, 1776, stood in 
this vicinity. A tablet at about 184th St. marks the site of a 
redoubt at one angle of the fort. The land back of the monu- 
ment is the highest point on Manhattan Island. It belongs to 
James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York Herald. At 179th 
St. is Holyrood P. E. Church, in which many revolutionary relics 
found in the vicinity are preserved. At 177th St., near Riverside 
Drive Extension (Boulevard Lafayette), is Arrowhead Inn. Be- 
tween the drive and the river is Fort Washington Park, a bit of 
wild woodland on a rocky bluff overlooking the river. At 169th 
St. is the new Armorv of the 22d Engineers. At 165th St. is the 
N. Y. INSTITUTION FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE 
DEAF AND DUMB, founded in 1817, with DeWitt Clinton, a 
former Governor of the State, as its first president. It is a 
private corporation, but is employed by the State under the direc- 
tion of the Commissioner of Education to educate deaf children 
'of the State. It is free to deaf children who are residents of 
the State. It has courses from kindergarten to academic, also 
in trades by which the deaf are fitted so that when pupils have 
completed the course they are able to be self-supporting. It is 
the only military school for the deaf in the world and has a fine 
band composed of pupils. It has 54 instructors and over 500 
pupils of both sexes. We turn west here to Broadway, passing 
on the corner the new Audubon Theatre, one of the largest in 
the city, seating over 2,300. Just east of Broadway is Washing- 
ton Heights Hospital. At 168th St. is the subway station. At 
131st St., east of the subway, where it emerges to cross the Man- 
hattan Valley, is Manhattan College, a R. C. institution giving 
collegiate courses leading to the degrees of B.A. and B.S. 



Bronx Borougk 



THE Borough of the Bronx, which is on the main line to the 
north and northeast of Manhattan, 'is the only borough not 
situated on an island. It is connected more closely with Man- 
hattan geographically and was, until January 1, 1914, politically, 
than any of the other boroughs. It is now, however, a separate 
county, each borough of the city being also a county of the State. 
Almost one-sixth, or about 4,000 acres of the total area, is devoted 
to parks and parkways. This area is more than the combined 
park area of all the other boroughs. Through the center of the 
Bronx, on high ground, runs the Grand Boulevard and Con- 
course, an avenue 300 ft. wide, which starts at 161st St. and 
runs to Mosholu Parkway, connecting the entire system of parks. 
This is: the finest driveway and boulevard in the city of New 
York and in connection with the drive through Pelham Parkway, 
Mosholu Parkway, Bronx Park, Pelham Park and Van Cortlandt 
Park, makes one of the finest drives in the city. 

VAN CORTLANDT PARK, in the northwest, contains 1,132 
acres and is the second in size of the city parks. It can be most 
readily reached by the Broadway subway, the Putnam division 
of the N. Y. C. R. R., from the "L" terminal at Eighth Ave. and 
155th St., or by trolley. It has a lake covering 25 acres, a large 
parade ground, golf links, athletic field, etc. The old Van Cort- 
landt Mansion, an ante-revolutionary stone building used by 
Washington as a headquarters, is still standing near the termi- 
nal of the subway. It is now a historical museum, open free 
daily until sundown. 

West of the park, on the bank of the Hudson, is Mount St. 
Vincent Academy, a noted convent school, conducted by Sisters 
of Charity. The grounds were once owned by Edwin Forrest, 
the actor, who built here a miniature castle. Adjoining Van 
Cortlandt Park on the east is Woodlawn Cemetery, 396 acres, 
between Jerome and Webster Aves., from 211th to 233d Sts., the 
burial ground of many wealthy New York families. It contains 
a number of handsome monuments, and mausoleums and the 
graves of many famous Americans. Here are buried Admiral 
Farragut, Jay Gould, Henry M. Flagler, Gail Borden. Marshall 
O. Roberts, Collis P. Huntington, R. H. Macy, Lt. -Commander 
DeLong, the unfortunate Arctic explorer. D. B. Fayerweather, 
William E. Dodge and others who were famous in the financial 
and commercial world. 

At the corner of Woodlawn Ave. and Gun Hill Road, near the 

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ZOOLOGICAL i'ARK. 

southern end of the cemetery, is the Montefiore Home, a hos- 
pital especially equipped for chronic invalids and consumptives 
in the advanced stage. Prior to 1913, when the new buildings, 
with room for 450 patients, were occupied, it was located at 
138th St. and Broadway. Established in 1884 as a Hebrew 
charity, it became a city institution in January, 1914, and receives 
incurables of both sexes discharged from the city hospitals. 

BROXX PARK, connected with Van Cortlandt Park by 
Mosholu Parkway, contains 719 acres, lies on both sides of 
Bronx River from 180th St. to 205th St. and is divided by the 
river and bv Pelham Ave. into four sections. 

The ZOOLOGICAL PARK occupies the southwest section, 
contains 264 acres and is in charge of the New York Zoological 
Society, which has here the largest zoological collection in the 
world, containing over 5,000 living animals representing over 
1,200 species. Here is one of the chief herds of American bison, 
a fine collection of reptiles, a mammoth open-air aviary, etc. 
There are in all 14 large animal buildings, and 10 smaller 
ones, also 14 large groups of outdoor dens, aviaries and corrals. 
About 1,500,000 people annually visit the park, which is free 
except on Monday and Thursday, when a charge of 25 cts. is 
made. By reciprocal arrangement between the city and the 
society, the city furnishes the land and the maintenance funds, 
the society furnishing the collections. The society receives the 
exclusive use of the gardens on Monday and Thursday, except 
holidays, but may charge non-members on these days an admis- 
sion fee. This park is best reached by the West Farms branch 
of the subway to the end of the line. 

The BOTANICAL GARDENS. 250 acres, occupy the north- 
west section of the park. They contain large greenhouses, with a 
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including many tropical species. Facing the palm house is the 
Museum, containing an extensive collection. Both are open from 
10 to 4; admission free. On the east side of the river is a 
liemlock grove, and on the bank of the river the Lorillard 
Mansion, where the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences exhibits 
variong interesting collections in relation to the Bronx, together 
with lithographs, etc., from the collection of J. Clarence Davies. 

Adjoining the Botanical Gardens on the west is Fordham 
University at 190th St. and Third' Ave., conducted by the Jesuit 
Fathers. It has courses leading to the degrees of B.A., B.S., and 
has in addition a medical and a law school. Here also is Ford- 
liam Hospital, allied with Bellevue. The Law School is located 
at No. 140 Nassau St. 

From Bronx Park, the Bronx and Pelham Parkway leads east 
to PELHA:M bay park, largest of the city parks," containing 
1,756 acres. This park, lying on the northeast end of the city, on 
Long Island Sound, has picturesque bays and inlets, much wood- 
land, playgrounds, a golf course, etc. It is one of the largest and 
most beautiful municipal parks in the world. It is a delight- 
ful place for a day's outing, but if time is limited it would hardlv 
repay the time required to reach and visit it. It is best reached 
by the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. R. from 133d St. Station to Bay- 
chester, Bartow or Pelham Stations. From the Bartow Station 
is a monorail line running to City Island, where boating and 
fishing on the Long Island Sound may be had. 

At the Van Nest Station is the New York Catholic Protec- 
tory, a home for destitute and delinquent Catholic children under 
16 years of age. It has about 4, .500 inmates, most of whom have 
"been committed by police magistrates. Almost due east of this 
is Throgg's Neck, at the extreme end of which is Fort Schuyler. 
The fortifications, begun in 1833, are now antiquated and the 
reservation, which contained 52 acres, is used as a training sta- 
tion for recruits for the United States Army. It can be reached 
only bv a long walk or carriage ride. 

CROTONA PARK, the fourth in size in the Bronx, is be- 
tween Boston Road and Third Ave., south of Tremont Ave., or 
177th St. It contains athletic grounds, tennis courts, etc. At 
the northwest corner is the Bronx Borough Hall. Near the 
southwest corner, at 170th St. and Fulton Ave., is the Bronx 
Church House, a social center. • At 166th St. and Boston Road 
is the Morris High School, which accommodates 4,000 students 
and has nearly 1.50 instructors, one o'r the most beautiful educa- 
tional buildings in the city. It faces a narrow street and the 
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NEW YORK L'MVERSITY AND IJALL OF FAME. 

be seen for miles. At Franklin Ave., one block west, is the 
armory of the Second Field Artillery, N. G., N. Y. At 161st St. 
and Third Ave. is the new Bronx Comity Court House, contain- 
ing offices of the new county. 

West of Crotona Park is Claremont Park, with an elevation 
of 100 ft. in places. It contains many tennis courts, baseball 
diamonds and the old Zybrowski Mansion, now used as the offices 
of the Park Department. A short distance west is the Grand 
Boulevard and Concourse. Following this northward, Poe Park, 
from 192d to 194th St., is reached. It is interesting only from 
its association with the poet Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote "The 
Raven" in the little cottage opposite. A picture of a raven is 
painted over the attic window. 

Turning westward on 194th St. and Kingsbridge Road, we 
reach, at Sedgwick Ave., the R. C. ORPHAN ASYLUM on 
the heights overlooking the Harlem River. It has about 1,000 
boys and girls, who are cared for and given an elementary school 
education. It was organized in 1817 and for many years occu- 
pied the plot on Madison Ave., north of St. Patrick's Cathedral. 
A short distance to the south, at Sedgwick Ave. and 188th St., is 
WEBB'S ACADEMY and Home for Shipbuilders, established by 
the will of W. H, Webb, a shipbuilder, as a home for aged ship- 
builders and a school where this profession may be taught. 

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YORK UNIVERSITY. The college campus covers about 40 
acres and contains a number of buildings, the most prominent 
being the HALL OF FAME for Great Americans, a circular 
granite colonnade 500 ft. in length, built about the library and 
holding 150 panels for bronze tablets containing the names of 
great Americans. In 1900, 29 names were chosen, and in 1905 
eleven more were selected, and five in 1910. Five names are to 
be selected every five years, the judges being a committee of 100 
persons prominent as educators, publicists, editors, authors, chief 
justices, etc. It was a gift of Miss Helen Gould, who gave 
$100,000 for the purpose. 

The last three institutions may be best reached by train from 
155th St. and Eighth Ave., or Grand Central Station. 

In the southern section of the Bronx are many large manufac- 
turing establishments, one of the finest of which is the plant of the 
Ward Baking Company at Southern Boulevard and St. Mary St. 
This is the largest and finest bread bakery in the world. Upon 
application at the office a guide will show visitors many inter- 
esting points. In this plant the flour and other raw materials 
are received in the basement direct from a private track. Here 
the flour is first blended to make the best bread and then con- 
veyed to the top floor, where it is sifted to remove all impuri- 
ties and then passes into automatic weighing machines which stop 
■the flow of flour the moment the correct amount has been 
received. From this machine the flour passes to the mixers and 
then into large tanks, where the dough rises. When fully risen, 
it passes through kneading machines and is then cut into loaves 
by another automatic machine and passes over a long series of 
belts, where it rises slightly before being put in the pans, after 
which it is allowed to rise in a special room maintained at an 
even temperature, from which it passes direct to the huge ovens 
and then to the shipping department. The entire operation is 
mechanical and the bread is not handled at any point in the 
process. "Cleanliness" is the watchword throughout, and_ the 
building is a veritable temple of snow-white cleanliness within 
and without. Southern Boulevard car, from 129th St. and Third 
Ave., is the best way of reaching this bakery. The company oper- 
ates another large bakery in Brooklyn as well as plants in Boston. 
Providence, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago, having 14 plants in all 
and a new one now under construction at Newark, N. J. 

Northeast of this, at Hunt's Point Road, is Joseph Rodman 
Drake Park, in which the poet is buried. 

Over 70 piano factories and 10 piano supplies factories are in 
the lower part of the borough. 



Brooklyn Borougk 

BROOKLYN Borough consists of the old city of Brooklyn. 
In population it is second of the five boroughs and, if a 
separate city, would be third in the Union. It was settled in 
1623, incorporated a city in 1834 and made part of Greater New 
York in 1898. It is a city of homes, with 275,000 school chil- 
dren, yet it has 5,000 factories, which produced, in 1910, goods 
valued at $800,000,000. It has long been known as the "City of 
Churches," having over 500. 

The BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, on the East River, is the 
principal naval station of the country. The main entrance is at 
Navy and Sands St., best reached by Flushing Ave. car from 
Brooklyn Bridge. Admission is free by pass, obtainable by appli- 
cation at the gate; visiting hours, 10 to 4, except Sundays and 
holidays. It covers an area of about 144 acres, with a water- 
front of nearly three miles. Most of the buildings are machine 
shops, store houses and offices. There are also huge barracks 
and the residences of the yard ofificials. The U. S. Naval Lyceum 
near the entrance has a large historical museum and library. 
Near the Lyceum is Trophy Park, a small grass plot containing 




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a monument to sailors killed in an attack upon a Chinese fort, 
and a number of guns captured in various naval battles. There 
are three dry docks, the largest being 657 ft. long, 64 ft. wide at 
the bottom and 70 ft. at the top and 29 ft. deep. A traveling 
crane, capable of lifting 100 tons, is one of the interesting 
sights. Visitors are usually permitted to inspect the ships except 
when loading powder or while undergoing repairs. The new 
battleship New York, which will be the largest and most power- 
ful vessel in the Navy, was launched here October 30, 1912. 
To the east of the Navy Yard is the Naval Hospital, with 
accommodations for 500 patients. 

GREENWOOD CEMETERY is one of the most beautiful 
cemeteries in the world. It covers an area of 475 acres, and 
since it was opened in 1842 about 315,000 bodies have been 
interred therein. It is about 214 miles from Brooklyn Bridge 
and is best reached by Fifth Ave. "L" road. Carriages at the 
main entrance make the tour of the cemetery every hour ; fare, 
25c. (stop-over privileges). Each full-sized burial lot contains 
378 square feet, giving space for 15 graves, and the prices range 
from $400 to $1,000 a lot. The grounds are hilly and magnifi- 
cent monuments and tombs cover the tops of the elevated places. 
The Pilot's Monument, erected in 1846 by the pilots of New 
York in memory of Thomas Freeborn, one of their members, can 
be seen from the ships entering the harbor. The Brooklyn Thea- 
tre Fire Victims' Monument covers the remains of 105 unrec- 
ognized victims of that calamity. The most famous monument 
is the one erected over the grave of Charlotte Cauda, a New 
York girl, who was killed in an accident on her 17th birthday. 
A triangular monument covers the remains of Samuel F. B. 
Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. The Sea Captains' Monu- 
ment, covering the grave of Captain John Correja, is a statue 
of the captain holding the sextant he used while at sea. Among 
those buried here are Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett, 
Peter Cooper, Elias Howe, Henry George, Henry Ward Beecher, 
DeWitt Clinton, A. S. Scribner, John Matthews, etc. 

Soldiers' Monument, erected by the city of New York to the 
memory of the soldiers who fell in the- Civil War, is on Battle 
Hill, the site of the first engagement in the Battle of Long 
Island. Lord Sterling's force, consisting mainly of Pennsylva- 
nia, Maryland and Delaware troops, was stationed on this and 
neighboring hills. When the main force of the British fell 
upon the rear of Sullivan's force, the British Gen. Grant marched 
forward and the Americans retreated to Gowanus Creek, where 
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many of his troops and others were drowned trying to escape. 

PROSPECT PARK lies to the north of Greenwood Ceme- 
tery, reached by Flatbush Ave. cars from Brooklyn Bridge. It 
has an area of 526 acres, and the parade grounds adjoining it 
have an area of SOVl acres. It resembles the upper part of 
Central Park in its hills and vales and wild beauties. The Plaza, 
the main entrance to Prospect Park, is marked by a soldiers and 
sailors' arch, surmounted by a bronze group representing the 
Chariot of Victory led by 
heralds of peace. The 
arch is hollow and a 
staircase leads to the top. 
Open to the public. Sev- 
eral other monuments, 
mostly of local celebri- 
ties, are in and around 
the park. A magnificent 
view of the bay and the 
surrounding country can 
be obtained from the top 
of Lookout Hill. On the 
slope of this hill is a 
marble shaft, erected by 
the iVIar3'land Society of 
the Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution to the memory of 400 Maryland troops who 
defended the rear of the American Army on their retreat after 
the Battle of Long Island. Battle Pass, on the carriage road, a 
short distance from the Plaza, is the pass on the Flatbush road, 
which was guarded by General Sullivan when the British fell upon 
his rear and scattered the main body of Americans. A tablet 
marks the site. The Battle of Long Island was the most impor- 
tant historical event that occurred in the territory of what is now 
Brooklyn. As a result of the defeat of the Americans, they lost 
New York and did not regain possession until peace was declared. 

The BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND 
SCIENCES, on the Eastern _ Parkway side of Institute Park, 
which adjoins Prospect Park, is a museum of natural history. It 
bears the same relation to the borough as the two great museums 
in Manhattan. The city furnishes the land and maintenance, 
while the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences furnishes the 
exhibits. This organization consists of a number of departments 
covering almost every branch of science and art. It was organ- 
ized in 1823 as an apprentices' library society and reorganized 




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in 1887, when nearly all the scientific, literary and art socie- 
ties in Brooklyn joined it as sections. The society now has 
this Museum, with a branch in Bedford Park, and a Children's 
]\Iuseum in Bedford Park, schools, a Laboratory of Biological 
Research, a branch of the Carnegie Institute, art classes, lecture 
courses, etc. The Museum, which is a short distance from the 
Plaza, can be reached by any car going to Prospect Park. Open 
9 to 6, Sundays 2 to 6, and Thursdays till 9.45. Admission free, 
except on Mondays and Tuesdays, when 25c. is charged. Near 
the Museum is the water tower of the reservoir. 

Fulton St., the principal business street of Brooklyn, starts 
from the Fulton Ferry, runs beside the Brooklyn Bridge approach 
and then eastward through the center of the borough nearly to 
Jamaica. About one-third of a mile from the Brooklyn Bridge 
entrance is the Borough Hall, the old Brooklyn City Hall, built 
between 1836 and 1849. In front is a triangular grass plot with 
a statue of Henry Ward Beecher and a handsome fountain. In 
the rear is the Hall of Records and Kings County Court House, 
adjoining which is a $2,000,000 Municipal Building. 

On Orange St., near Hicks St., which is not far from the 
Brooklyn Bridge entrance, is Plymouth Church. The building 
itself is a large plain brick structure, hardly worth a second 
glance. It is famous in church annals as the seat of Henry Ward 
Beecher's pastorate from 1847 to 1887. and Lyman Abbott's pas- 
torate from 1888 to 1899. During the last years of Beecher's 
service it was the best-known church in America. The oldest 
church building in Brooklyn is probably the Flatbush Reformed 
Church, corner Flatbush and Church Aves. It antedates the 
Revolution, being the successor to the first church erected on 
this site in 1660. 

On Washington St., near Johnson, two blocks north from the 
Borough Hall, is the Post Office, with receipts of about $2,600,000 
a year, being the fourth largest postal business in the country. 
It is a $2,000,000 structure, erected in 1892. Opposite the Post 
Office is the building of the Brooklyn Eagle, the oldest and most 
influential newspaper in Brooklyn. The building is on the site of 
the ill-fated Brooklyn Theatre, which burned down on Decem- 
ber 5, 1876, during a performance of "The Two Orphans." More 
than 300 persons lost their lives. Fulton St., east of the Borough 
Hall, is the retail shopping district, with the large department 
stores of A. D. ^Matthews Sons at No. 398, Abraham & Straus at 
No. 420 and Frederick Loeser & Co. at No. 482. A little further 
out, at St. Felix St., is the Academy of Music, the main front 
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BOROUGH HALL. 
Hall o.f Records, Court House aud Municipal Building in rear. 

One block north of Fulton St., on DeKalb Ave., is Fort Greene 
Park, the site of Fort Putnam, erected by the patriots in August, 
1776, at the end of the line of fortifications guarding Brooklyn 
and the approach to New York City from the Long Island side 
and the nearest to the ferry, now Fulton Ferry. Washington, in 
shifting the troops prior to the escape from Long Island after 
the battle, sent them to Fort Putnam before the embarkation, and 
this was the last post on Long Island occupied by Americans 
until the close of the Revolution. It was again fortified in the 
War of 1812 and called Fort Greene. At the Myrtle Ave. en- 
trance are tombs holding remains of revolutionary soldiers who 
died in the British prison ships moored in Wallabout Bay (Navy 
Yard). The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument at the entrance 
was dedicated by President Taft in 1908. The shaft, from the 
bottom of the plaza to the top of the urn, is 195^5 ft. high, IVA 
ft. wide at the base and has an interior diameter of 9 ft. It 
contains an electric elevator and two flights of stairs by which 
the top may be reached ; cost, $175,000. On the DeKalb Ave. side 
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training school, and on the Raymond St. side is Raymond St. jail. 

On Claremont Ave., three blocks east of the park, is the new 
Masonic Temple, with 69 blue lodges, having 20,000 members in 
Brooklyn. On Ryerson St., a few blocks east, is Pratt Institute 
of fine and applied arts, with a library of over 100,000 volumes. 

The water front of Brooklyn has some interesting sights. 
At Rowland's Iron Works, south of Newtown Creek, the origi- 
nal "Monitor," which fought the "Merrimac," was built. The 
Havemeyer sugar refineries are on the water front just above 
Williamsburg Bridge. The Atlantic Basin, opposite Governor's 
Island, and the Erie Basin, further south, are indenta«tions pro- 
tected by breakwaters and containing piers, wharfs and ware- 
houses. Further south, on both sides of the 39th St. Ferry, are 
the enormous warehouses and piers of the Bush Terminal Com- 
pany._ There is a beautiful shore road from 66th St. to Fort 
Hamilton, lined with mansions. At 84th St. are the grounds of 
the Crescent Athletic Club, the leading social and athletic club 
of Brooklyn. At 100th St. is the entrance to Fort Hamilton. 
This fort and Fort Wadsworth, on the Staten Island side, com- 
mand the Narrows and the Ship Channel. The site was fortified 
in 1703, but later neglected. During the War of 1812 the brick 
casemated fort in the Narrows was built. This was first called 
Fort Diamond, but changed to Fort Lafayette in 1824, when 
Lafayette visited the U. S. The present Fort Hamilton was 
erected between 1822 and 1831. The reservation covers an area 
of 145 acres and the works are 47 ft. above low w^ater. Pass to 
visit the fort can be obtained by written application to the com- 
manding officer. Reached by Third Ave. cars from Brooklyn 
Bridge. The British landed here before the Battle of Long Island. 

CONEY ISLAND, the most famous amusement resort in the 
world, is really a sand bar on the Atlantic Ocean, about eight 
miles from the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge. It is 
about five miles long and from a few hundred feet to quarter of 
a mile wide and consists of four distinct sections — Sea Gate, 
West Brighton, Brighton and Manhattan Beach. Sea Gate, at the 
western end, is a Summer home colony, having several hundred 
buildings, some costing many thousands of dollars. There are 
no stores or amusement resorts in this section, nothing but 
Summer homes. It is reached by boat from the Battery or by 
a trolley line, which connects with the various trolley and 'U' 
lines going to Coney Island. Half a mile east of Sea Gate is 
West Brighton. This is the most lively, most noisy, most 
crowded and most democratic part of Coney Island. It is about 
^i miles long and consists of one main street. Surf Ave., with a 



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number of narrow passageways to the beach and two or three 
narrow parallel streets. Surf Ave. and the passageways are lined 
with saloons, restaurants, concert halls, shooting galleries, carous- 
sels, toboggan slides and every catch-penny device that will 
amuse the people and lure the little nickels and dimes from their 
pockets. The Bowery is a narrow, short boardwalk parallel 
with Surf Ave. Steeplechase Park and Luna Park are enclosed 
amusement resorts opening upon Surf Ave., and Steeplechase 
Park has also an entrance from the Bowery. They contain 
scores of attractions, to each of which an admission fee is 
charged. Combination tickets at reduced prices are sold at the 
entrances. Feltman's, an enormous restaurant with open-air 
gardens, seating several thousand diners, is opposite the entrance 
to Luna Park. Near it is Henderson's Music Hall, Restaurant 
and Hotel, extending back to the Bowery. Stauch's is a large 
dance hall and restaurant on the Bowery, opposite Henderson's. 
Ravenhall and the Kaiserhof are fine restaurants beyond Steeple- 
chase Park. Studenbord's, east of Feltman's, is one of the old- 
est restaurants on Coney Island. A large municipal free bath 
house extends from Surf Ave. to the beach, opposite the end 
of the Ocean Parkway. The Ocean Parkway is a wide car- 
riage road, flanked by bicycle roads and foot paths extending 
from the southeast corner of Prospect Park to the eastern end 
of West Brighton Beach, a distance of 5^ miles. Numerous 
hotels and restaurants are situated along the road and several 
amusement resorts are near the Coney Island end. 

BRIGHTON BEACH is half a mile east of West Brighton 
Beach. It has one enormous hotel and a number of Summer 
resort attractions, including a fine vaudeville theatre. This 
section of Coney Island is less noisy, there are few catch-penny 
resorts and the general tone is higher than at West Brighton. 
It is the favorite resort of the Brooklynites. 

MANHATTAN BEACH was, until 1910, the fashionable part 
of Coney Island. Since then it has been cut up into building lots 
and become a Summer home colony. Coney Island can be reached 
by_ "L" and trolley roads from Brooklyn and Williamsburg 
Bridges and by steamboats from the Battery. 

JAMAICA BAY, in the extreme southeastern section of the 
borough, is a bay covering 40 square miles and protected by Rock- 
away Beach from the ocean. It consists of channels of various 
sizes between many islands and the mainland. It is proposed to 
straighten and deepen some of these to provide 150 miles of piers 
and deep channels for ocean steamers, thereby relieving the 
congestion in the Hudson River. 



Queens Borough 

THE Borough of Queens lies to the north and east of the 
Borough of Brooklyn and covers an area of over 80,000 
acres, or 40% of the total area of New York City. By the 
Act of Consolidation of 1897, Queens County, which was then 
comprised of the towns of Long Island City, Newtown, Flushing, 
Jamaica and Hempstead, some of which were settled as early as 
16-40, was amalgamated as the Borough of Queens, as part of 
the city of "Greater New York." It contains many suburban 
home communities now in the process of development. 

The Queensboro Bridge, at E. 59th St., is the main entrance 
from Manhattan Borough to Long Island City and Queens Bor- 
ough. It is the best route for the aytomobilist to all parts of 
not only Queens Borough but all Long Island. Queens Borough 
has magnificent paved highways and has a wonderful variety of 
scenery, both along Long Island Sound and the center of the 
borough, through which extends a ridge of hills. 

LONG ISLAND CITY, which lies on the East River, to the 
north of Brooklyn, and opposite Manhattan, from about 34th St. 
northward, is becoming the greatest industrial center of New 
York City, and contains the extensive Sunnyside Yards of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, many automobile manufacturing and serv- 
ice plants, as well as other large factories, such as the Steinway 
and Sohmer Piano Works, the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Factory, the 
General Electric Vehicle Company and the Nichols Copper Co. 
In the upper section of Long Island City construction work is 
rapidly progressing on the new connecting railroad bridge which 
will connect the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York, New 
Haven and Hartford Railroad. This bridge, which will be the 
largest of its kind in the world, is estimated to cost $18,000,000. 
With viaducts it will be three miles long and will consist of three 
spans, connecting Long Island City, Ward's Island, Randall's 
Island and the Bronx. These spans will rise to a height of 300 
ft. above the water. 

Following along the shore, North Beach, a popular low- 
priced summer resort, is reached at the western end of Flushing 
Bay. Eastward, across the bay, is the village of Flushing, which 
contains the Friends' Meeting House, erected in 1698 ; the 
Bowne House, built in 1645, and other pre-revolutionary houses. 
To the north of Flushing are College Point and Whitestone, two 
manufacturing villages on Long Island Sound, at the eastern end 
of Flushing Bay. Southeast from Long Island City, toward the 
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QUEENSBORO BRIDGE PLAZA. Proposed Rapid Transit Station. 

center of the borough, is the former town of Newtown, the 
earliest settlement on Long Island. A little further southeast is 
the village of Forest Hills, a community established by the Rus- 
sell Sage Foundation and a very interesting site. Just south of 
this community is Forest Park, covering 536 acres, the fifth 
largest park in the city. It is at present covered with natural 
forest. From the ridge of this park there is a magnificent view 
over Jamaica Bay to the Rockaways and the Atlantic Ocean. 

South and east of the park are Woodhaven, Richmond Hill 
and Jamaica, directly east of Brooklyn, and lying in the center 
of the borough, communities that have developed wonderfully 
in the past few years. Jamaica is the important railroad center 
of Long Island, as nearly all the Long Island Railroad trains pass 
through the modern terminal which has just been completed at 
this point. One of the most interesting houses in Jamaica is the 
Colonial homestead of Governor John A. King, built 125 years 
ago. This building is now occupied by a Colonial Museum, in 
charge of the King Manor Association. Governor King was the 
first Ambassador to England from the United States. 

The ROCKAWA Y COAST, at the southern portion of the bor- 
ough, is' about ten miles in length and lies between Jamaica Bay 
and the Atlantic Ocean. This section is one of the finest seaside 
resorts along the Eastern coast, and has a boardwalk along the 
ocean, broad macadamized streets, magnificent hotel's, handsome 
residences and public parks. The trip is a delightful ocean sail 
of two hours, or it may be made in 30 to 40 minutes via the elec- 
tric trains of the Long Island Railroad or Brooklyn Elevated. 



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Richmond Borough 

YING at the entrance to New York Harbor, five miles from 
the Battery, is Staten Island, a hilly island of great natural 
beauty, which, with Shooter Island and a few marshy islands 
in the narrow channel which separates it from New Jersey, com- 
prises the Borough of Richmond. Staten Island is 14 miles 
long and 7 miles wide at its widest point. Todt Hill, which 
rises 417 ft. above the sea, is the highest point on the Atlantic 
coast from Maine to Florida. So situated that the vegetation of 
the North and South meet on Staten Island, it has a larger 
variety of plants than any other place in the United States. 

Approaching St. George, the nearest point to Manhattan, by 
the Municipal Ferry from the foot of Whitehall St., the Bor- 
ough Hall with its square tower is a conspicuous landmark. 
Here is the seat of government of the 54 villages united in 1898 
to form Richmond Borough of Greater New York. The Nat- 
iiral History Museum at St. George contains many relics of the 
Algonquin Indians found on the island. From the ferry termi- 
nal radiate 47 miles of steam railroads and 59 miles of trolley 
lines to all parts of the island. Going along the north shore a 
short distance to New Brighton, Sailors' Snug Harbor is 
reached. This is a home for old deep-sea sailors, founded by 
Capt. Robert R. Randall, who in 1801 left his farrn near what 
is now Broadway and 9th St., for this purpose. The income, now 
over $1,000,000, supports about 1,000 sailors. At New Brighton is 
also the fine Curtis High School, with about 1,100 pupils. There 
are 34 public schools, with 15,000 pupils and 440 teachers. 

It is an interesting ride through many villages, past large fac- 
tories and beautiful homes to Tottenville, the most southern 
point in the State of New York and the most distant village of 
Greater New York from the City Hall (19 miles). Here is the 
Billop House, built about 1664 by Christopher Billop on a 2,000- 
acre tract granted him by the Duke of York as a reward for 
sailing around the island in less than 24 hours and thereby sav- 
ing it to the Duke of York in a dispute with Lord Berkleigh, 
Governor of New Jersey, as to whether it should belong to New 
York, or New Jersey. Here Franklin and others met Lord Howe 
in 1776 to endeavor to arrange a settlement of the troubles of 
the colonies. 

Near the center of the island, at Richmond, is St. Andrew's 
P. E. Church, erected 1708, the proud possessor of a silver com- 
munion service presented by Queen Anne. There are 74 churches 
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SAILORS' SNT'(; IIAIir.OR. 

with 32,000 members on Staten Island. A little further east is 
New Dorp, with the old Moravian Cemetery containing the mag- 
nificent Vanderbilt mausoleum, where the members of the family- 
are buried. 

Along the shore east of here is Midland Beach, and further 
north South Beach, both readily accessible by trolley from St. 
George. Surf bathing, fishing and the other amusements usually 
found at beaches may be enjoyed. 

Adjoining South Beach on the north is Fort Wadsworth, at 
the entrance of the Narrows. This with Fort Hamilton on the 
opposite side guard New York and are the strongest coast 
defenses in the country. 

Just inside the Narrows is the quarantine station and the 
house of the Health Officer of the port. Here all vessels from 
foreign ports are boarded and inspected to prevent infectious 
diseases entering the country. 

Continuing northward in our tour of the island, we reach 
Stapleton, where still stands the home of Commodore Vander- 
bilt, the founder of the present Vanderbilt fortunes. At Staple- 
ton another municipal ferry back to Manhattan may be found. 



HOTELS 

Figures following Name indicate Text Reference. 

No. Min.rate 

i^aine Location rooms per day 

Albemarle-Hofeman, :M) Broadway and 24th St 500 $1 50 

Albert 95 11th St. and University PI.. 450 1.00 

Algonquin. 129 59 W. 44th St 250 2.50 

Ansonia, 153 Broadway and 73d St 1,^500 2.00 

Astor, 38, 39, 129, 130 Broadway and 44th St 1,000 2 50 

Athens, 21, 118 30 E. 42d St 125 2.00 

Belleclaire, 153 Broadway and 77th St 320 2.00 

Bellevne 54th St. and Seventh Ave 180 2.00 

Belmont, 118 Park Ave. and 42d St 700 2.50 

Beresford, 151 Slst St. and Central P'k W. 2-50 2.00 

Biltmore, 113, 127 Madison Ave. and 43d St 1,000 2.00 

Breslin, 36 Broadway and 29th St 500 1 50 

Bretton Hall, 153 Broadway and .S6th St 520 l.(K) 

Brevoort, 41 Fifth Ave. and 8th St 120 1..50 

Bristol. 130 122 W. 49th St 180 1..50 

Broadway Central, 33 Broadway and 3d St 600 1.00 

Broztell, 108 3 E. 27th St 2.50 2.00 

Buckingham, 45 Fifth Ave. and 50th St 260 1..50 

Chelsea, 103 222 W. 23d St 500 1.50 

Clarendon .57 E, 58th St 125 1.50 

Claridge, 38, 39 Broadway and 44th St 250 2.50 

Collingwood, 123 45 W. 35th St 250 1.50 

Colonial Columbus Ave. and 81st St.. 300 1.50 

Cumberland, 39 Broadway and 54th St 250 2.50 

Empire. 154 Broadway and 63d St 270 l.(K) 

Eudicott Columbus Ave. and 81st St. . oOO 1.00 

T*TTrrTders, 130 1.35 W. 47th St 300 1.50 

Gerard, 129 123 W. 44th St 400 1.00 

Gotham, 47 Fifth Ave. and 5.5th St 400 2.50 

Grand Union, 118 Park Ave. and 42d St 725 l.oo 

Great Northern, 133 lis W. 57th St 400 1.50 

(Gregorian, 123 .43 W. 35th St 225 2.00 

Grosvenor, 41 loth St. and Fifth Ave 140 1.50 

Herald Square, 116 1I6 W. 34th St 310 1.50 

Hermitage, 121 Seventh Ave. and 42d St 250 1.50 

Holland House, 42 pifth Ave and 30th St 350 2.00 

Holley, 41 36 Washington Sq 200 1.50 

Imperial, .36 Broadway and 31st St 8(K) 2.00 

Iroquois, 129 49 \v. 44th St 160 2.0t) 

J^flson r,3 Washington Sq 2.50 2.50 

Kin g Ed wa rd, 130 1.55 w. 47th St 325 2.00 

Knickerbocker, 38, 121 Broadway and 42d St oOO 2.50 

Latham, 108 4e 28th St 2.5(> 1.50 

Le Marquis 12 E. 31st St 170 3.00 

Longacre, 130 i.-,7 w. 47th St 2.50 1.00 

Lorraine Fifth Ave. and 45th St 250 2.00 

McAlpm, 3b, 116 Broadway and 34th St 1 ,(K)0 1.50 

Majestic, 148 Central Park A\'. and 72d St. 700 1.50 

Manhattan, 118 Madison Ave. and 42d St.... 7(M> 2..50 

Mane Antoinette, 1.54 Broadway and ()7th St 500 2.00 

Marlborough-Blenheim. 37 . Broadway and 36th St 400 1.50 

Martha Washington,20.108 29 E 29th St 425 1.50 

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Martinique, o(> Rroarlwav and 'i'-ld St 

Maryland, 130 104 VV. 40th 8t 

Murray Hill, 120 Park Ave. and 40th St 

Navarre, 121. 122 Seventh Ave. and 38th St 

Netherland, 50 I'. Fifth Ave. and 5Uth St 

New Grand Broadway and 31st St 

New Weston Madison Ave. and 4'.>th St. . . 

Park Ave., 110 Park Ave. and 32d St 

Patterson, 130 59 W. lOth St 

Plaza, 50 Fifth Ave. and 5!)th St 

Prince George. lOS 14 E. 28th St 

Renaissance, 127 512 Fifth Ave 

Ritz-Carlton, 127 Madison Ave. and 46th St... 

Royalton, 120 44 W. 44th St 

St. Andrew Broadway and 72d St 

St. Denis, 34 Broadwav and 11th St 

St. James, 130 100 W. 45th St 

St. Lorenz. 138....; 127 E. 72d St 

St. Re.gis, 47 Fifth Ave. and 55th St 

San Remo, 148, 150 Central P'k W. and 74th St. 

Savoy, .50 Fifth Ave. and 50th St 

Seville. 108 Madison Ave. and 20th St . . . 

Seymour, 130 44 W. 45th St 

Sherman Square Broadwav and 71st St 

Sherry's, 43 Fifth Ave. and 44th St 

Somerset, 130 150 W, 47tli St 

Stratford 11 E. 32d St 

Times Square, 120 206 W. 43d St 

Touraine, 118, 110 E. 39th St 

Union Square, 96 Union S(|. and 15th St 

Van Cortlandt, 130 142 W. 4t)th St 

Vanderbilt. 110 Park Ave. and 34th St 

Victoria. 36, 41 Broadwav and 27th St 

Waldorf-Astoria, 42, 117... Fifth Ave. and 34th St 

Wallick, 120 Broadwav and 43d St 

Walton 104 W. 70th St 

Webster, 130 40 W. 45th St 

Wolcott 4 W. 31st St 

Woodstock, 120 127 W. 43d St 

Woodward, 30 Broadway and 55th St 

York, 123 Seventh Ave. and 36th St. . . . 



625 


}t;2.oo 


120 


1.50 


600 


2.00 


350 


1..50 


400 


2.00 


4(K) 


1.00 


200 


3.00 


430 


1.50 


300 


2.00 


750 


2.50 


600 


2.00 


350 


2.50 


425 


5.00 


250 


2.50 


2.50 


1.50 


250 


1.00 


200 


2.00 


200 


2.00 


340 


3.00 


600 


1.50 


500 


2.0L) 


475 


1.50 


250 


1.50 


500 


1.00 


150 


4.00 


225 


1.50 


145 


2.50 


100 


1.50 


150 


1.50 


130 


1..50' 


200 


1.50 


600 


3.00 


3.50 


1..50 


1,000 


3.00 


400 


1.00 


210 


2.00 


160 


3.00 


300 


2.00 


365 


2.00 


400 


2.00 


250 • 


1.50 



THEATRES 



Name Location 

Academy of Music, 101 14th St. and Irving PI. 

Alhambra, luO 126th St. and Seventh Ave. 

American. 121 260 W. 42d St. 

Astor, 39 45th St. and Broadway 

Belasco, 120, 131 115 W. 44th St. 

Berkeley, 120 1«> W. 44th St. 

Booth, 130, 131 . 222 AV. 45th St. 

Brady's Playhouse, 130 137 W. 48th St. 

Broadway, 38 1445 Broadway 

Carnegie Hall and Lyceum, 134 Seventh Ave. and 57th St. 

Casino, 37 39th St. and Broadway 

Century, 148 62d St. and Central Park W 



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Circle, 148 Broadway and 6()th St. 

Cohan's, 38. 12!» 1480 Broadway 

Columbia, .39 47th St. and Seventh Ave. 

Comedy, 123 41st St., east of Broadwav 

Cort, 130, 131 48th St., east of Broadway 

Daly's, 36 1221 Broadway 

Eltinge, 121 236 W. 42d St. 

Empire, 38 40th St. and Broadwav 

Forty-eighth Street, 130 48th St., east of Broadway 

Forty-fourth St. Music Hall, 120... 216 W. 44th St. 

Fulton, 130 46th St., west of Broadway 

Gaiety, 3'.>. 1.30 46th St. and Broadway 

Garrick, 123 6.5 W. 3.5th St. 

Globe, 39, 130 4oth St. and Broadway 

Grand Opera House, 103 23d St. and Eighth Ave. 

Haramerstein's Victoria, 121 42d St. and Seventh Ave. 

Harris, 121 42d St., west of Broadway 

Herald Square, 37, 123 35th St. and Broadway 

Hippodrome, 127, 129, 131 .4.3d St. and Sixth Ave 

Hudson, 129 1.39 W. 34th St. 

Hurtig & Seaman's, 160 125th St. and Seventh Ave. 

Irving Place, 22, 96 1.5th St. and Irving PI. 

Keith's Colonial, 154 o2d St. and Broadway 

Keith's Hnrlem Opera House, 160.. 211 W. 125th St. 

Keith's Union Square, 101 14th St. and Broadway 

Knickerbocker, 37 38th St. and Broadway 

Liberty, 121 2.34 W. 42d St. 

Lincoln Square, .36 1947 Broadway 

Little, 129 238 W. 44th St. 

Longacre, 1.30 220 W. 4Sth St. 

Lyceum, 1.30 45th St., west of Broadway 

Lyric, 121, 129 213 W. 42d St. 

Manhattan Opera, 115 .34th St., west of Eighth Ave. 

Maxine Elliott's. 123 39th St., east of Broadway 

Metrop. Opera, 38, 101, 115, 121. 131. .39th St. and Broadway 

Miner's People's, 85 201 Bowery 

Murray Hill, 120 42d St. and Lexington Ave. 

New Amsterdam. Aerial (Jardeus, 121. 42d St. and Broadway 

New York, 39 45th St. and Broadway 

Palace, 39 47th St. and Broadway 

Park, 1.33 Columbus Circle 

Philipps, 22. 125 205 E. 57th St. 

Plaza, 126 .59th St. and Madison Ave. 

Princess 104 W. 39th St. 

Proctor's 23d St., 103 23d St. and Sixth Ave. 

Proctor's Fifth Ave., 117 28th St. and Broadway 

Proctor"<=! 58th St., 125 .58th St. and Third Ave. 

Proctor's 12.5th St.. 160 12.5th St. and Lexington Ave. 

Republic, 121, 129 42d St.. west of Broadway 

Savoy, 116 112 W. 34th St. 

Seventh Ave., 160 Seventh Ave. and 124th St. 

Shubert, 129 44th St., west of Broadway 

Strand, 39 47th St. and Broadway 

Thirty-ninth St., 12.3 47th St. and Broadway 

Vitagraph 44th St. and Broadway 

Wallack, ,36 i'.Oth St. and Broadway 

West End, 160 .-68 W. 12.5th St. 

Winter Garden, .39, 1.30 50th St. and Broadway 



INDEX 



For Hotels and Theatres see Special Index. 
Black Figures indicate Illustrations. 



Academy of Medicine, 127 

Adams Express Building, 20 

i^olian Hall, 121, 127 

Aero Club, 118 

"Albany," Steamer, 83 

Alpha Delta Phi Club, 129 

Altman's, 42, 109 

Am. Ex. National Bank, 25, 28, 29. 

Am. Geographical Society, 163 

Am. Inst, of Elec. Engineers, 123 

Am. Inst, of Mining Engineers, 123 

American Line, 103 

Am. Mus. of Nat. History. 119, 150 

Am. Museum of Safety, 123 

Am. Numismatic Society, 163 

Am. Soc. of Civil Engineers, 134 

Am. Soc. of Mech. Engineers, 123 

Amusements, 22 

Aquarium, 48, 54, 58 

Arch, Prospect Park, 173 

Army Building, 55 

Army and Navy Club, 129 

Arsenal, 123, 141 

Arthur, statue, 35 

Aschenbrodel-Verein, 137 

Aetor, .John Jacol), res., 50 

Astor Library, 43, 90 

Atlantic Basin, 176 

Atlantic Transport Line. 102 

Athletic Fields, 23 

Audubon Park, 162 

Automobile Club of America, 134 

Aviation Field, 23 

Babies' Hospital, 125 

Bank of America, 62 

Bank of the Manhattan Co., 62 

Bi'uk of New York, 63 

Bankers Trust Co., 59. 60, 63 

Bar Association, 127, 138, 129 

Barge Office, 49, 55 

Barnard College, 157, 158 

Batterv, 14, 49, 55, 164, 177 

Batterv Park, 54, 55, 58 

Battle of Long Island, 94, 147, 172, 

173, 17') 
Bayne, S. G., res., 152 
Beecher, Henry Ward, statue, 174 
Bellevue Hospital, 110. Ill, 114, 161 
Belvedere. 142, 143 
Berkelev Lyceum, 129 
Bethesda Fountain, 142 
Bible House, 90 
Bible Teachers' Training Sch., 125 



Billings, C. K. (i., estate, 165 

Billop House, 180 

Blackwell's Island, 114, 136 

Block House, 147, 157 

Board of Education, 86, 126 

Borough Hall, Bronx, 168 

Borough Hall, Brooklyn, 174, 175 

Borough Hail. Richmond, 180 

Botanical Gardens, 9, 167 

Bowne House, 178 

Bowery, 85, 89 

Bowery Mission, 85 

Bowery Savings Bank, 86 

Bowling Green, 52, 53 

Bradstreet's, 3.3, 86 

Bradstreet's Building, 87 

Bread Line, 34, 85 

Brentano's, 41 

Brick Presbyterian Church, 43 

Bridges, 12-15. 18, 19, 49 

Bridge of Sighs, 76 

Brighton Beach, 176, 177 

Broad Street, 62, 63 

Broadway, 24-25-39 

Broadwav Tabernacle, 39 

Brokaw, Cliftord V., res., 50 

Brokaw, Howard C, res., 51 

Brooklyn 5, 13, 15, 105, 171, 179 

Bkn. Bridge. 12, 15, 172-174, 176, 177 

Bkn. Ins. of Arts and Sciences, 173 

Brown University Club, 129 

Bronx Church House, 168 

Bronx Park, 9, 141, lo7, 168 

Bronx and Pelham Parkway, 168 

Bryant Park, 120 

Buchanan Mansion, 95 

Bull, W. L., res., 50 

Bush Terminal Company, 64, 176 

Calumet Club, 42 

Calvary Baptist Church. 134 

Calvary M. E. Church, 161 

Calvary P. E. Church, 97 

Camera Club, 154 

Carnegie, Andrew, res., 51 

Castle Garden, 58 

Castle Williams, .56 

Cathedral of St. John, 1.55, 156 

Catholic Club, 133 

Central Bridge, 11, 19, 163 

Central Park, 23, 105, 141, 173 

Central Presbyterian Church, 134 

Central K. K. of N. J. Ferry, 69, 103 

Century Association, 127 

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Chamber of Commerce, 66, 67 

Chapel af Intercession, 162 

Charity Organization Society, 98 

Chelsea Piers, 95, 102 

Chemical National Bank, 31, 33, 74 

Chemists' Club, 118 

Children's Aid Society, 88,93,160 

Children's Court, 91 

Children's Hospital, 114 

Chinatown, 77, 78 

Choir School, Cathedral, 155, 156 

Church of the Ascension, 41 

Church Missionary Soc. Bide:., 97 

Church Du St. Esprit, French, 108 

Church of Beloved Disciple, 140 

Church of Divine Paternity, 150 

Church of Epiphany, P. E., 120 

Church of Epiphany, R. C, 98 

Church of Heavenly Rest, 45 

Church of Holy Communion, 104 

Church of Incarnation, 119 

Church of Land and Sea, 79 

Church of Most Holy Redeemer, 93 

Church of Paulist Fathers, 133 

Church of St. George. 91 

Church of St. Ignatius Lovola. 140 

Church of St. .Jean Baptiste, 137 

Church of St. Mary the Virgin. 130 

Church of Transfiguration, P.E., 109 

Church of Transfiguration, K.C., 77 

Church of Zion & St. Timothy, 134 

Churchill's Restaurant. 20, 39 

Cincinnati, Order of, 101 

City Athletic Club, 134 

City Club Building, 129 

City Hall, 71, 80 

City Hall Park, 33, 71, 80, 81, Ho 

City History Club, 123 

City Hospital, 114, 160 

City Investing Building, 25, 31 

City Island, 168 

Civic Center, 75 

Clark's, W. A., Mansion, 51 

Claremont Inn, 158, 159 

Clearing House, 65 

Clef Club, 134 

Clubs, 128 

College Bookstore, 158 

College of City of N. Y., 98, 126, 

161, 162 
College Point, 178 
Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons, 132 
Colony Club, 109 
Columbia University, 156. 157 
Columbia University Club, 97 
Columbia Yacht Club, 153 
Columbus Circle, 39, 14S, 149 
Columbus Monument, 133, 14S, 149 



Columbus Park, 76 

Commissioner of Correction, 96 

Commissioner of Charities. 114 

Coney Island, 23, 58, 105. 176, 177 

Congregation Shearth Israel, 79 

Conkling, statue, 35 

Conservatory Lake, 142 

Consolidated Stock Exchange, 64 

Convent of the Sacred Heart, 161 

Cooper Union, 90, 91 

Cornell University Club, 120 

Cornell Medical School, 114 

Cotton Exchange, 63 

County Jail, 84 

Court House, Appellate Div., 107 

Court House, Bronx County, 169 

Court House, City, 73 

Court House, Kings Co., 174, 175 

Court House, N. Y. Co., 72. 73, 80 

Court House, Proposed, 75 

Cox, S. S., statue, 90 

Crescent Athletic Club. 176 

Criminal Courts Building. 76 

Croton Aqueduct, 163 

Croton Reservoir, 43 

Crotona Park. 23, 168 

Cunard Line, 102 

Curb Market, 62, 64 

Custom House, 49, 52. 53, 61, 63 

Dartmouth Club, 130 

De la Mar, Joseph, res.. 119 

de Peyster, Abraham, statue, 52 

De La Salle Institute. 133 

De Witt Clinton High School, 1.32 

Deems Church of Strangers, 134 

D. L. & W. R. R. Ferry. 69. 74, 103 

Delmonico's, 20, 33, 36, 41, 43, 63 

Demilt Dispensary, 98 

Democratic Club, 45 

Dept. of Docks and Ferries. 54, 58 

Dept. of Health, 76 

Deutscher Verein, 1.33 

Dietrich, C. F., res., 51 

Distances, 19 

Dodge, W. E., statue, 37 

Doyers Street, 78 

Drake Park, 170 

Drexel, Anthony, Jr., res., 51 

Duke, James B., res., 51 

East Harlem Church, 160 

East River, 5, 13, 15, 105, 116, 160 

East Side Settlement House, 136 

Eden Musee. 22, 104 

Eighth Regiment, 140 

Elevated Railroad System, 8-10 

Elizabeth Home for Girls, 92 

Elks' Club. 128, 129 

Ellis Island, 14, 57 



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Engineers' Club, 123 

Equitable Bldg., 29, 30, 48 

Equitable Trust Company, 62 

Eiifsson, John, statue, o.j, 50 

Erie Basin. 176 

Erie Railroad Ferry, 103 

Evening Mail Building, 69 

Evening Post Building, 74 

Excliange Place. (;2. (H 

Exempt Firemen's Association, 125 

Farragut. statue, 35, 41 

Federal Building, 71 

Fellowship Club, 129 

Fencers' Club, 130 

Ferries, 13, 14 

Fifth Ave., 12, 40-42-51 

Fifth Ave. Bank. 43, 45 

Fifth Ave. Building, 35, 36. 41 

Fifth Ave. Presbvterian Church, 47 

Fine Arts Society, 134 

Fire Department, 95. 138 

Fire Prevention Bureau. 139 

Firemen's Memorial, 152 

First Baptist Church, 153 

First Christian Science Church, lol 

First Field Artillery, 154 

First Hospital Company, 1.54 

First Moravian Church. 110 

First Presbvterian Church, 41 

First Ref. Episcopal Church. 126 

First Signal Corps, 110 

First Union Pres. Church, 1.37 

Fish, Hamilton, res., 50 

Fish, Plamilton. Park, 85 

Fish, Stuvvesant, res., 140 

Five Points District, 76 

Flatbush Reformed Church, 174 

Flatiron Building, 35, 41 

Flower Hospital, 135 

Flushing, 178 

Fordham Hospital, 114. 168 

Fordham University, 168 

Forest Hills, 179 

Forest Park, 179 

Fort George, 164 

Fort (Treene Park. 175 

Fort Hamilton, 176, 181 

Fort Schuvler. 16S 

Fort Wadsworth. 176. 181 

Fort Washington Park, 165 

Fourth Ave., 10. 96. 97, 105 

Franklin, Benjamin, statue. 70 

Franklvn, Waiter, house, 74 

Fraunco's Tavern, 22. 63, 64 

French Hospital, 115 

French Line, 102 

Freundschaft Society, 13.3, 1.34 

Friars' Club, 1.30 

Frick, Henry C, res., 45, .50 



Friends' Meeting-house, 50. '.>'.>. 178 

Fulton Ferry, 13, 67, 174. 175 

"Robert Fulton,' Steamer, S3 

Fulton Street, 174 

B\irnald Hall. 156, 157 

Gallatin. B'rederick, res.. 45 

Gary, Elbert H., res., 50 

General Memorial Hospital, 151 

Gen. Theological Seminary. 103 

German Hospital, 1.37 

German Masonic Temple, 99 

German Poliklinik, 92 

(iermania Assembly Rooms, 89 

Ghetto, 84 

Gimbel Bros,, 37, 117 

Goelet, Mrs. Ogden, res., 45 

(4oelet. Robert, res., 45 

Gorham's, 43 

Governor's Island, 14, 55, 50 

Governor's Room, 72 

Gould, Edwin, res., 51 

Gould, George J., res., 50 

Gould, Miss Helen, 45, 170 

Gould. J., res., 51 

Gouverneur Hospital, 114 

Grace Church, 34 

Graduates' Club, 129 

Gramercy Park, 96 

(irand Boul. & Concourse, im. 16!» 

Grand Central Palace. 113. 125 

Grand Central Terminal. 20. 112, 

113, 118, 120, 124, 127, 170 
(rrnnt's Tonil), 158 
(irant, U. S.. res., 140 
Grant, W. T., Company, 104 
Great White Way, 24, 37. 121 
(Greater New York, 16-17, IT^ 
Greek Church, 1.34, 1.38 
Greeley. Horace, statue, 37, 70 
Greeley Square. 37 
Green Room Club, 1.30 
Greenhut, Siegel Cooper Co.. 104 
Greenwich Village. 93 
Greenwood Cemetery, 172, 173 
Grolier Club, 109 
Guggenheim. W.. res., 50 
Guggenheimer, Mrs. R., res., .50 
Hadley Rescue Mission. 89 
Hahnemann Hospital, 138 
Hale. Nathan, statue, 72 
Hall of Fame, 164, 169 
Hall of Records. 72, 73, 174. i:5 
Hamilton Park. 115 
Hamilton, statue, 67 
Hammond. C. S.. i^- Co.. 00 
Har Moriah Hospital. 93 
Harlem Eye & Ear Infirmary. 160 
Harlem Hospital, 114, 161 



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Harlem River, 18. 163 

Harvard Club, 128, 12'J 

Havemeyer, Mrs. Henry O., res., 50 

Hay Exchange 115 

Healy's Restaurant, 151 

Hearn's, 95 

Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 161 

Hebrew Technical Institute, 91, J)9 

Hegeman, John R., 107 

Heidelberg Building, 38, 121 

Hell Gate, 136 

Hempstead, 178 

"'Hendrick Hudson," Steamer. 82. 83 

Herald Building, 31, 37 

Herald Square, 37, 117 

High Bridge, 18, 19 

High School of Commerce, 154 

Hispanic Society, 163 

Holy Trinity Chapel, 137 

Homeopathic Medical College. 135 

Horace Mann School. 158 

House of Relief, 83, 102 

Hudson River, 13. 105, 107, 116, 177 

Hudson River Day Line. 82, ■'^3 

Hudson Terminal Buildings, 68, 69 

Hudson Tunnels, 14, 'V.) 

Hunt, Richard, Memorial, 50 

Institute Park, 173 

luwood on the Hud-son, 165 

Irving, Washington, 89, 96. 121 

Iselin, William E., res., 47 

Jackson Square, 94 

Jamaica, 178, 179 

Jamaica Bay, 177, 179 

Jay, John, Park, 136 

Jay, John, statue, 67 

Jeanette Park, 63 

Jefferson Market Court House, 94 

Jersey Cattle Club, 103 

Jessup, Morris K., res., 119 

Jewish Hospital, 99 

John St. Methodist Church, 68 

Jonas, L. & Co., 31 

Judson Memorial Bap. Church, 40 

Jumel Mansion, 163 

Kenmare Park, 88 

Kennedy & Shelley, 12 

Kernochan, Mrs. J. P., res.. 50 

King, Gov. John A., res., 179 

Knickerbocker Club, 42 

Knickerbocker Hospital, 161 

I^afayette, statue, 34, 160 

Lambs' Club. 129 

La Salle Academy, 93 

Law Institute, 70 

Lebanon Hospital, 99 

Lenox Library. 43, 50 

Liberty Statue, 14, 56, 57 



Liberty Tower, 62 
Liederkranz, 126 
Liggett's Drug Store, 124 
Lincoln Monument, 34, 95 
Lispenard Sugar Hou«e, 66, 67 
Little Church Around Corner, io9 
Loeser, Fredeiick, «& Co., 174 
Long Island, 105 
Long Island City, 13, 18, 178 
Long Island Railroad, 179 
Long Island Sound, 168 
Lord & Taylor's, 4.3, 84 
Lorillard Mansion, 168 
Lotos Club, 133 
Low Library, 156, 157 
Low, Seth, res., 140 
Lowell. Josephine, fountain, 120 
Luna Park, 177 
Lying-in Hospital, 99 
McCloskev, Cardinal, 45 
McCreery's 104, 117 
McGown's Pass Tavern, 147 
Macy, R, H., & Co., 37. 95, 116, 123 
Madison Ave. Baptist Church, 109 
Madison Ave. Pres. Church, 140 
Madison Ave. Ref. Church, 126 
Madison Square, 35, 41 
Madison Sq. Garden, 23, 107, 120 
Madison Sq. Pres. Church, 106, 107 
Maine Memorial, 1.33, 148, 149 
Mall, Central Park, 141, 142 
Manhattan Beach, 176, 177 
Manhattan Borough, 5, 178 
Manhattan Bridge, 13, 15, 79, 80 
Manhattan Chess Club, 134 
Manhattan Club, 107 
Manhattan College, 165 
Manhattan Maternity Hospital, 1.35 
Manhattan Savings Ins., 33 
Manhattan Square, 1.50 
Manhattan Valley, 165 
Marble Collegiate Church, 42 
Marble Hill, 164 
Margaret Louisa Home, 101 
Mariners' Church. 79 
Maritime Exchange, 64 
Masonic Temple, 104, 114 
Matthews, John, res., 1.52. 153 
Maxim's Restaurant. 123 
Mechanics' Bank, 129 
Menagerie, Central Park, 141 
Mercantile Library, 90 
Merchants' Exchange, 63 
Merchants' National Bank, 62 
Metropolitan Club, ,50 
Metropolitan Building, 36, 48, 98, 

105. 106. 107 
Metropolitan Hospital, 114 



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Metropolitan Museum of Art, 51, 

144, 140, 147 
Middle Collegiate Ref. Church, 92 
Middle Dutch Ret Church, 66 
Midland Beach, 181 
Military Service Institution, 56 
Miller, William Starr, res., 51 
Milliken, Seth. res., 140 
Mills Hotels, 85, 93, 123 
Mills, Ogden, res.. 50 
Mills' Training School, 111, 114 
Millionaires' Apartments, 51 
Montefiore Home, 99, 167 
M'bravian Cemetery, 181 
Morgan's Art Gallery, 118 
Morgan, J. Piorpont, 99, 145 
Morgan, J. P., & Co.. 62 
Morgan, J. P., res., 118, 119 
Morris High School, 168 
Mosholu I'arkway, 166, 167 
Mount Sinai Hospital, 51, 98, 99, 

139, 140 
Mouquin's Restaurant, 117 
Mulherrv Bend, Park, 76 
Municipal Building, 4, 25, 33, 48, 

73, 75, 80 
Municipal Bldg., Brooklyn, 174. 175 
Municipal Lodging House, 114 
Murray Hill, 118 
Murray House, 120 
Murray's Restaurant, 121 
Musicians' Club. 130 
Mutual Life Ins. Building. 66, 67 
Narrows, 57, 176 
National Academy of Design, 1.52 
National Arts Club, 97 
National City Bank, 62 
National Guard. 110 
Naval Hospital, 172 
Navy Yard. 171, 175 
Newburg, 83 
New Jersey, 14, 57, 107 
Newsboys' Lodging House, 73 
Newspaper Row. 70 
Newtown, 178, 179 
N. Y. American & Joui*nal. 73 
N. 1^. Association for Blind. 125 
N. Y. Athletic Club. 23, 128, 133 
N. Y. Catholic Protectory. 168 
N. Y. Central Lines, 112, 113 
N. Y. Club, 123 
N. Y. College of Dentistry. 98 
N. Y. College of I'harmacy, 1.54 
N. Y. Countv National Bank. 95 
N. Y. Foundling Asylum. 138 
N. Y. Herald, 63, 74. 165 
N. Y. Historical Society, 92, 1.50 
N. Y. Hospital, 33, 83," 95, 102 



N. Y. Inst, for Blind, 115 

N. Y. Neurological Institute, 138 

N. Y., N. II. & H. R. R., 17S 

N. Y. Ophthalmic Hospital, 98 

N. Y. Presbyterian Church, 161 

N. Y. Public Library. 43, 44, 50, 120 

N. Y. Savings Bank, 95 

N. Y. Skin & Cancer Hospital, 99 

N. Y. Society Library. 95 

N. Y. State Arsenal, 123, 141 

N. Y. Trade Scliool, lo5 

N. Y. University, 40, 41, 114, 158, 

169, 170 
N. Y. Yacht Club, 128, 129 
Ninth Coast Artillery, 95 
Nockin, Henry. Jeweler, 1.54 
Normal College, 126, 137, 138 
North Beach, 178 
Northern Dispensary, 94 
Nursery & Child's Hospital, 125 
Nursing Sisters of the Poor, 99 
Obelisk, 143 

Olivet Memorial Church, 93 
O'Neill-Adams Company, 104 
Opium Smoking, 78 
Orphan Asylum of P. E. Ctiurch. 161 
Orphan Asylum, R. C, 88, 126, 164, 

109 
Packard Commercial School, 119 
Paradise Park, 77 
Park Carriages, 141 
Park Row No. 41, 81 
Park Row Building, 70 
Parkhurst's Church, 106, 107 
Pavne, O. H., res., .50 
I»eiham Bay Park, 166, 168 
Pelham I'arkway, 166 
Penn. R. R. B'erry, 69, 83 
Penn. Station. 115, 116 
Penn. Station Drug Co., 115, lift 
People's Hospital. 92 
Phi Gamma Delta. 129 
Phipps, Henry, res., 51 
Players' Club, 97 
Plymouth Church, 174 
Police Headquarters. 86, 88 
Polo Grounds, 23, 163 
Polyclinic Hospital, 130 
Potter Building. 81 
Post Office, 70, 71. 81, 115, 116, 174r 
Pratt Institute. 176 
Prescott House, 33 
Princeton Club, 97 
Printing House Square. 70 
Produce Exchange, .52. 53 
Prospect Park, 23, 173, 174 
IMilitzer Sch. of Journalisni,156, 157 
I'ulitzer, Joseph, res., 140 



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Quarantine Station, 181 

Queens. 5, 178 

Qneensboro Br., 15, 18. i:).'), 178. 179 

Racquet and Tennis Club, 127 

Kandall's Island, 114, 178 

Rector Street, 27 

Rector's Restaurant, 39 

Red Cross Hospital, 151 

Red Star Line, 103 

Reeves. W. C, Co., 110 

Relsenweber's Restaurant, 133 

Remick, J. H., & Co., 130 

Republican Club, 123 

Republican State Committee, 123 

Rescue Mission, 78 

Restaurants, 20-22 

Rhinelander Sugar House, 73 

Richmond Borough, 5, 114, ISO 

Richmond Hill, 179 

Riding Club, 126 

Riverside Drive, 1.52, 153, 100 

Rockaway, 179 

Rockefeller Institute, 135, 136 

Rockefeller, John D., res.. 47 

Rockefeller. William, res., 47 

Rocky Mountain Club, 129 

Rodeph Scholoni Synagogue, 140 

Roosevelt Hospital,' 1.33 

Roosevelt, W. E., res., 50 

Ruppert Jacob, res., 51 

Ryan, Thomas F., res.. 50 

St. Agnes Chapel 154 

St. Agnes R. C. Church 125 

St. Alovsius R. C. Church, 161 

St. Andrew's P. E. Church, 180 

St. Ann's Maternity Hospital, 138 

St. Augustine's Chapel, 85 

St. Bartholomew's Church, 120, 127 

St. Brigid R. C. Church, 93 

St. Christopher's Chapel, 09 

St. Chrysostom's Chapel, 121 

St. Francis Xavier College, 102 

St. Francis Xavier R. C. Ch., 102 

St. Gabriel's Park, 120 

St. George's Church. 99 

St. James Lutheran Church, 140 

St. James P. E. Church, 140 

St. Joachim R. C. Church. 7'.t 

St. John's Park, 83 

St. Joseph's Asvlum, 1.37 

St. Luke's Church, 162 

St. Luke's Hospital, l.in, 156 

St. Mark's Hospital. 92 

St. Mark's Lutheran Churcn, 93 

St. Mark's P. E. Church, 92 

St. Mary's Free Hospital, 115 

St. Matthew's Church, 162 

St. Michael's Cliurch, 115 



St. Nicholas Church, 93 

St. Nicholas Club, 129 

St. Nicholas Skating Rink, 1.54 

St. Patrick's Cath., 45, 46. 126, 169 

St. Patrick's Church, 88 

St. Paul's Chapel, 31, 69. 74 

St. Peter's Church, 74 

St. Thomas' Church, 45 

St. Timothy's Church. 77 

St. Vincent's Hospital, 94 

Sage, Mrs. Russell, res.. 45 

Sailors' Snug Harbor, 180, I8I 

Saks, 37, 116 

Saloman, \Yilliam, res., 51 

Salvation Army, 91, 95 

Schiff, Jacob H., res., 51 

Schifif, Mortimer L., res., 51 

Schinasi, res., 153 

Schultz, Harry J., 37 

Schurz, Carl, Park, 1.36 

Schurz, Carl, statue, 157 

Schwab, Chas. M.. res., 153 

Scotch Presbvterian Church, 1.51 

Scotch Tea Room, 130 

Screen Club. 130 

Sea Gate, 176 

Seaman's Institute, 63 

Second Ave. Baptist Church, 92 

Second Field Artillery, 169 

Second National Bank, 41 

Seventh Regiment Armory, 139 

Seventy-first Regiment, 110 

Seward Park. 84 

Seward, statue. 35 

Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue,125 

Shanley's Restaurant, 36, 38 

Sheffield Farms-Slawson Decker 

Co., 1.30. 132, 159, 160 
Shepard. Mrt<. F. J., re«., 45 
Sherman. (len.. statue, 47, 50 
Sherman W. Watts, res., 50 
Sickles, (reneral Dan, res.. 41 
Sigel, Gen. Franz, monument, 152 
Sierra, J. A.. lO:! 
Sims, J., Marion, statue, 121 
Singer Building, 25, 29. 48 
Sixty-ninth Regiment, 110 
Skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan. 

48. 49 
Sloane, John, res., 50 
Sloane Maternity Hospital. 132 
Societv of American Artists, 1.34 
Society for Ethical Culture. 14S 
Society of Mechanics and Trades- 
men, 129 
Soldiers and Sailors' Monument, 

152, 153 
South Beach, 181 



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South Ferry, 13, 49, 55 

Speedway, 1G3 

Speyer, James, res., 51 

Speyer School, 161 

Spuyten Duyvil, 16, 115 

Squadron A, 140 

Stages, 12 

Standard Oil Building, 24 

Staten Island, 5, 14. 180, 181 

Steinway Factory, ITS 

Steinway Hall, 100, 101 

Steinwav & Sons, 101 

Stern Bros., 121, 127 

Stevens House, 24 

Stewart, A. T., !)2, 110, Km 

Stickney. Mrs. Joseph, res., 50 

Stock Exchange 59, 60 

Stokes, Mrs. Anson i:*helps, res., 119 

Streets, 5 

Stuyvesant High School, 99 

Stuyvesant Square, 99 

Sul)way. (i. 7, 8 

Sun Building-, 70, 81 

Sunnyside Yards, 178 

Surface Lines, 10, 11 

Switzer Institute, 94 

Sydenham Hospital, 160 

Synod Hall, 155, 156 

Syrian Quarter, 58 

Taft, Henry W., res., 134 

Tammany Hall, 70, 99, 101 

Taxicabs, 12 

Teachers College, 157, 158 

Temple Beth-El, .51 

Terrace (iarden, 125 

Thirty-ninth St. Ferry, i:'., 170 

Tiffany .V- Co.. 34, 4.", 

Tiffany Mansion, 140 

Times Annex, 129 

Times Building, 38, 39, 70, 121, 149 

Times Square, .38, 39 

Todt Hill, 180 

Tombs, 75, 76 

Tottenville, 180 

Transportation Facilities, 6-14 

Trayers Island, 133 

Tribune Building, 70, 81 

Trinity Building, 27, 29 

Trinity Cemetery, 1B2 

Trinit.y Church,' 26, 27, 31, 60, 

74, 83, 85. 121, 162 
Trowmart Inn, 94 
Twelfth Regiment, 1,54 
Twenty-second Engineers, 165 
Twombly, H. McK., res., 47 
I'nion Club, 45 
T'nion League Club, 43 
Union Square, 34, 97 



Union Theological Seminary. 158 
United Hebrew Charities. 98 
U. S. Assay Office, 61, 62 
U. S. Express Building. 20, 27,64 
U. S. Realty Building, 25. 2t> 
U. S. Rubber Company, 39, 149 
U. S. Sub-'Treasury, 60, 61 
University Club, 47 
University Settlement, 85 
Van Cortlandt Park, 7. 23. 166. 167 
Vanderbilt Clinic, 132 
Vanderbilt, Frederick W.. res., 4:! 
Vanderbilt Mausoleum 181 
Vanderbilt. Mrs. Cornelius, res., 47 
Vanderbilt, W. K., res., 45 
Verrazani, statue, 56 
Verdi, statue, 154 
Volunteers of America, 117 
Wadleiffh Hii;h School. 160 
Wall Street, 59, 60 
Wanamaker's, 34. 90 
Ward Baking Company, 170 
Ward's Island, 178 
Washington Arch. 40, 41 
Washington Bridge. 18, 19. 164 
Washington Irving High School. 96 
"Washington Irving," Str.. 82, 83 
Washington Market, 69. 94 
Washington Square, 40, 41 
Washington, statue, 34, 160 
Watch Shop. 107 
Webb Academy, 164, 169 
Webb, W. Seward, res.. 47 
West Brighton, 176, 177 
West Shore R. R. Ferry. -V.) 
West St. Building, 27, 48, 69 
W^iite Rats Club, 130 
White Star Line, 102 
Whitehall Building, 48. 54, 58, 59 
Whitestone, 178 
Whitney, H. P., res., 50 
Whitney, Payne, res.. 51 
Williamsburg Bridge, 7, 14, 15, 

84, 86, 88, 176, 177 
Woman's Hospital, 151. iSfi 
Woman's University Club, 125 
Woodhaven, 179 
Woodlawn Cemetery, 166 
Woolworth Bldg., 25, 31, 32, 48 
Woolworth, F. W.. res., 51 
World Building. 71, 80 
Worth Monument, 35, 41 
Yale Club, 129 
Yanss Optical Company, 107 
Y. M. C. A.. 86. 98, 103, 115, 124, 

127, 134, 160 
Y. W. C. A., 101, 102, 125 
Zoological Park, 167 



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